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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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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
- —開放性openness
- —開放的open (attitude, etc.); openhearted; frank; liberal; open (space); spacious
- —開成所Kaiseijo (school of foreign studies set up by the shogunate during the Edo period)
- —開発費development cost
- —面開発large-scale housing and lifestyle development project
- —開花期anthesis; flowering season
- —開創器retractor
- —開缶器punch-style can opener (punches a round or V-shaped hole in a can of liquid)
- —公開株publicly traded stock; stock listed on the stock exchange
- —開設者founder; establisher
- —未開国uncivilized country
- —開放感sense of space; spaciousness
- —公開日release date; publication date; opening day; open day
- —初公開debut; opening; first public exhibition
- —超展開abrupt plot change; unexpected story development; story development from out of left field
- —開拓使early-Meiji administrative unit for Hokkaido (1869-1882)
- —開戦派war party; warmonger
- —未公開unpublished; not made public; unlisted (e.g. stock); unreleased; undisclosed
- —跳開橋bascule bridge; drawbridge
- —開水路open channel (liquid flow)
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