Xu Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Gate (mén) Kai Kangxi Stroke Count: 18 Page 1340, Entry 01 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced kai (rising tone) Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced kai (rising tone) Explanation of Graphs (Shuowen): To open. Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): To open, to release. Regional Dialects (Fangyan): In Eastern Qi, opening a door is called yan zhan; in Chu, it is called kai. History of the Former Han (Qianhan): Now we wish to open the great pass with the Han. Cao Zhi, Poems on Correcting Ambitions: When the gate mechanism opens, the arrow is not pursued. Also, Extensive Sophistry (Boya): Kai means to desire. Also, written as the variant form (kai). History of the Former Han (Qianhan): Insects and creatures are opened and joyful. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji): Uses the variant form (kai) in the sense of joyful grace. Also, Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced kai (level tone). Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Bright. Also, an archer's thumb ring. Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial (Yili), Rites of Rural Archery: The explanation of the thumb ring (jue) says it is like a kai, made of ivory, worn on the right thumb to hook the string and open the body. Explication of Texts (Shiwen): Kai is pronounced kai (level tone). Also, as a personal name. History of the Later Han (Houhan), Biography of Liu Biao: Then he established schools, broadly seeking Confucian scholars, such as Qimu Kai, Song Zhong, and others. Commentary: Kai is pronounced kai (level tone). Also, Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced kai (falling tone) Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced kai (falling tone) Meaning is the same.