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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
- —開幕編opening act; introductory part
- —開拓村pioneer settlement; frontier village
- —開発機development machine; experimental machine
- —開口器mouth gag
- —開口具open mouth gag
- —能開法Vocational Abilities Development Promotion Act
- —開口一番at the very beginning of one's speech; immediately upon opening one's mouth (to speak); before anything else; first of all
- —活路開拓developing a way or means
- —株式公開stock offering (to the public)
- —共同疎開community evacuation
- —研究開発research and development; R&D
- —公開外交open diplomacy
- —公開講座extension lectures
- —国際展開international expansion
- —市場展開market expansion
- —人材開発human resources development; personnel development; career development; HRD
- —低開発国underdeveloped country; developing country
- —帝王切開Caesarean section; Cesarean section; C-section
- —天地開闢creation of heaven and earth
- —未開墾地virgin soil; uncultivated land
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