启蛰

Traditional form:

啟蟄

Pinyin (reading):

Qǐzhé

Definitions:

• Waking from Hibernation
• old variant of 驚蟄／惊蛰 ( Jīngzhé), Insects Wake, 3rd of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣／二十四节气 (èrshísìjiéqi) 6th-20th March

Characters:

• 启 - to open; to begin, to commence; to explain
• 蛰 - to hibernate

Traditional characters:

• 啟 - to open; to begin, to commence; to explain
• 蟄 - to hibernate