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開 kanji
open, unfold, unseal
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
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On readings
カイ
Kun readings
ひらくひらき-びらきひらけるあくあける
Variant forms
开Words with 開
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3開始Popularstart; commencement; beginning; initiation
- N2開会Popularopening of a meeting
- N2開通Popularopening (of a new road, railway, etc.); going into operation (e.g. telephone communication); beginning services; reopening (e.g. of a road to traffic); resumption of services
- N2開放Popularopening (a door, window, etc.); leaving open; opening up (e.g. to the public); allowing (public) access
- N2展開Populardevelopment; evolution; progression; unfolding; (plot) twist; expansion; spreading out; extending; deployment; building up; expansion (of an algebraic expression); development (of a three-dimensional shape); extraction (of compressed data); decompression; unpacking; sharing (information)
- N1開催Popularholding (a conference, exhibition, etc.); opening; hosting (e.g. the Olympics)
- N1開拓Popularreclamation (e.g. of wasteland); cultivation; development; pioneering; opening up (e.g. of a new market); breaking new ground; trailblazing
- N1開発Populardevelopment; cultivation; application; exploitation (of resources)
- N1公開Popularopening to the public; making available to the public; exhibiting; unveiling; release (of a film, information, etc.); disclosure; publication
- N1打開Popularbreak in the deadlock
- N1未開Popularuncivilized; uncivilised; primitive; savage; undeveloped (land); unexplored (territory, field, etc.); unbloomed (flower)
- N1切開incision; operation; section
- —開演Popularcurtain raising; starting (e.g. play, concert)
- —開花Popularflowering; blooming; blossoming; coming into bloom; flowering (of a civilization, talent, etc.); blossoming; blooming; bearing fruit (of efforts)
- —開館Popularopening (for that day's business; of a library, museum, cinema, etc.); opening (of a new library, museum, cinema, etc.)
- —開業Popularopening a business; opening a practice
- —開局Popularopening (of a broadcasting station, post office, bureau, etc.); establishment
- —開口Popularopening; aperture (e.g. camera); opening one's mouth; beginning to speak; open; broad
- —開校Popularopening a school
- —開港Popularopening a port (seaport, airport, etc.); starting operations at a port; opening a port to foreign vessels or trade
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