kāi

open; initiate, begin, start

DEFINITIONS

开 kāi
  • to open
  • to start
  • to turn on
  • to boil
  • to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc)
  • to operate (a vehicle)
  • carat (gold)
  • abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1 er3 wen2]
  • abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1 ben3], book format

STROKES

WORDS

三面 wǎng kāi sān miàn to leave the net open on three sides (idiom); let the caged bird fly; to give one's opponent a way out; lenient treatment
关 zǒng kāi guān main switch
羞口难 xiū kǒu nán kāi to be too embarrassed for words (idiom)
联合国发计划署 lián hé guó kāi fā jì huà shǔ United Nations Development Program
胸廓切术 xiōng kuò qiē kāi shù thoracotomy (medicine)
脑洞大 nǎo dòng dà kāi imaginative; to have one's mind buzzing with ideas
脑袋花 nǎo dài kāi huā to blow one's brain out
花有重日,人无再少年 huā yǒu chóng kāi rì , rén wú zài shào nián a flower may blossom again, but a person cannot get young again (proverb)
山脉 ruò kāi shān mài Arakan Yoma, mountain range in western Myanmar (Burma)
万事头难 wàn shì kāi tóu nán every beginning is difficult (idiom); getting started is always the hardest part
夏郡 lán kāi xià jùn Lancashire (English county)
见钱眼 jiàn qián yǎn kāi to open one's eyes wide at the sight of profit (idiom); thinking of nothing but personal gain; money-grubbing
qǐ kai (dialect) to step aside; Get out of the way!
军费支 jūn fèi kāi zhī military spending
软件发 ruǎn jiàn kāi fā software development
软件发人员 ruǎn jiàn kāi fā rén yuán software developer
重新始 chóng xīn kāi shǐ to resume; to restart; to start afresh
重新机 chóng xīn kāi jī to restart; to reboot
jù kāi to saw
门户放 mén hù kāi fàng open door policy; Egyptian President Sadat's infitah policy towards investment and relations with Israel
三次方 kāi sān cì fāng cube root; to extract a cube root
交 kāi jiāo (used with negative) to conclude; (impossible) to end; (can't) finish
仗 kāi zhàng to start a war; to open hostilities
伙 kāi huǒ to start providing food; to open today's service in a canteen
伯尔 kāi bó ěr Khyber province of Pakistan; Northwest Frontier province