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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
- —満開日first day of cherry blossoms reaching full bloom; first day in which at least 80% of the somei yoshino cherry blossom has opened (in a specific region or place)
- —開化丼bowl of rice topped with beef (or pork) and egg
- —開心術open-heart surgery
- —開店花opening day flower gift; bouquet of flowers given to a new store (restaurant, etc.) on its opening day
- —翼開長wingspan (of a bird); wingspread
- —開花日day of blooming
- —開閉所switching station; switchyard
- —開港場open port; treaty port
- —不開示non-disclosure (of information)
- —新展開new development
- —開放値f-number; focal ratio; f-ratio; f-stop
- —開胸術thoracotomy
- —能開大polytechnic college (with two-year and four-year courses)
- —横展開horizontal deployment (of techniques, etc.); application to other fields
- —昇開橋lift bridge
- —開口期dilatation stage (of labour)
- —不開港closed port
- —開拗音contracted sound
- —開被覆open cover
- —展開式expansion
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