kāi

open; initiate, begin, start

DEFINITIONS

開 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

WORDS

一夫當關,萬夫莫 yī fū dāng guān , wàn fū mò kāi one man can hold the pass against ten thousand enemies (idiom)
一把鑰匙一把鎖 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
三七定論 sān qī kāi dìng lùn thirty percent failure, seventy percent success, the official PRC verdict on Mao Zedong
不可交 bù kě kāi jiāo to be awfully (busy etc)
竅 bù kāi qiào unable to understand; can't get the point
diū kāi to cast or put aside; to forget for a while
亞洲發銀行 yà zhōu kāi fā yín háng Asian Development Bank
shēn kāi to stretch out
保險解系統 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]
信口河 xìn kǒu kāi hé to speak without thinking (idiom); to blurt sth out
dào kāi to reverse a vehicle; to drive backwards
chuán kāi (of news) to spread; to get around
尊口 miǎn kāi zūn kǒu keep your thoughts to yourself
bā kāi octavo
公共支 gōng gòng kāi zhī public expenditure
gōng kāi public; to publish; to make public
信 gōng kāi xìn open letter
化 gōng kāi huà to publicize; openness (of government, PRC equivalent of "glasnost")
指責 gōng kāi zhǐ zé to denounce
討論會 gōng kāi tǎo lùn huì open forum
賽 gōng kāi sài (sports) open championship; open (as in "the US Open")
鑰匙 gōng kāi yào shi public key (in encryption)
zài kāi to reopen; to start again
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