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

拓性 kāi tuò xìng pioneering; groundbreaking
拓者 kāi tuò zhě pioneer
拔 kāi bá to set out (of troops); departure; start date (of military expedition)
挖 kāi wā to dig out; to excavate; to scoop out
掘 kāi jué to excavate; to dig out; fig. to investigate (in an archive)
掛 kāi guà to cheat in an online game (abbr. for 開外掛|开外挂[kai1 wai4 gua4]); (coll.) unbelievably good
採 kāi cǎi to extract (ore or other resource from a mine); to exploit; to mine
支 kāi zhī expenditures; expenses; CL:筆|笔[bi3], 項|项[xiang4]; to spend money; (coll.) to pay wages
放 kāi fàng to bloom; to open; to be open (to the public); to open up (to the outside); to be open-minded; unrestrained by convention; unconstrained in one's sexuality
放式系統 kāi fàng shì xì tǒng open system(s)
放式網絡 kāi fàng shì wǎng luò open network
放性 kāi fàng xìng openness
放源代碼 kāi fàng yuán dài mǎ see 開放源碼|开放源码[kai1 fang4 yuan2 ma3]
放源碼 kāi fàng yuán mǎ open source (computing)
放源碼軟件 kāi fàng yuán mǎ ruǎn jiàn open source software (OSS)
放系統 kāi fàng xì tǒng open system
放系統互連 kāi fàng xì tǒng hù lián open systems interconnection; OSI
敗 kāi bài to wither and fall
敞 kāi chǎng wide open
方 kāi fāng to extract a square root
明 kāi míng enlightened; open-minded; enlightenment
明君主 kāi míng jūn zhǔ enlightened sovereign
映 kāi yìng to start showing a movie
春 kāi chūn beginning of spring; the lunar New Year
普勒 kāi pǔ lè Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), German astronomer and formulator of Kepler's laws of planetary motion