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

平 kāi píng Kaiping county level city in Jiangmen 江門|江门, Guangdong; Kaiping district of Tangshan city 唐山市[Tang2 shan1 shi4], Hebei
拓性 kāi tuò xìng pioneering; groundbreaking
方 kāi fāng to extract a square root
本 kāi běn book format, similar to in-4°, in-8° etc (a 16-kai format 16開|16开[shi2 liu4 kai1] is roughly A4); abbr. to 開|开[kai1]
炉 kāi lú to open a furnace; to start up a furnace
锁 kāi suǒ to unlock
阳 kāi yáng zeta Ursae Majoris in the Big Dipper; Kaiyang county in Guiyang 貴陽|贵阳[Gui4 yang2], Guizhou
一夫当关,万夫莫 yī fū dāng guān , wàn fū mò kāi one man can hold the pass against ten thousand enemies (idiom)
一把钥匙一把锁 yī bǎ yào shi kāi yī bǎ suǒ One key opens one lock.; There is a different solution for each problem. (idiom)
三七 sān qī kāi ratio seventy to thirty; thirty percent failure, seventy percent success
三七定论 sān qī kāi dìng lùn thirty percent failure, seventy percent success, the official PRC verdict on Mao Zedong
窍 bù kāi qiào unable to understand; can't get the point
亚洲发银行 yà zhōu kāi fā yín háng Asian Development Bank
shēn kāi to stretch out
保险解系统 bǎo xiǎn jiě kāi xì tǒng arming system
信口合 xìn kǒu kāi hé variant of 信口開河|信口开河[xin4 kou3 kai1 he2]
dào kāi to reverse a vehicle; to drive backwards
尊口 miǎn kāi zūn kǒu keep your thoughts to yourself
bā kāi octavo
公共支 gōng gòng kāi zhī public expenditure
指责 gōng kāi zhǐ zé to denounce
讨论会 gōng kāi tǎo lùn huì open forum
钥匙 gōng kāi yào shi public key (in encryption)
zài kāi to reopen; to start again
huà kāi to spread out after being diluted or melted; to dissolve into a liquid