kāi

to open; to turn on; to start

Character data

HSK 1
Frequency 94th character
Radical ⼶ (55.1)
Strokes 4
Index # 76
TRADITIONAL

Definitions

开 kāi
  1. 1. to open
  2. 2. to turn on
  3. 3. to start
  4. 4. to operate (a vehicle)
  5. 5. to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc)
  6. 6. to boil
  7. 7. carat (gold)
  8. 8. abbr. for Kelvin, kāi ěr wén
  9. 9. abbr. for kāi běn, book format

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Words containing 开

Word Meaning
lenient treatment; to give one's opponent a way out
main switch
to be too embarrassed for words (idiom)
United Nations Development Program
thoracotomy (medicine)
imaginative; to have one's mind buzzing with ideas
to blow one's brain out
youth never returns; cherish time
Arakan Yoma, mountain range in western Myanmar (Burma)
every beginning is difficult (idiom)
Lancashire (English county)
money-hungry; only cares about money
(dialect) to step aside; Get out of the way!
military spending
software development
software developer
to resume; to restart; to start afresh
to restart; to reboot
to saw
open door policy
cube root; to extract a cube root
(used with negative) to conclude; (impossible) to end
to start a war; to open hostilities
to start providing food
Khyber province of Pakistan; Northwest Frontier province