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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
- —未開拓地undeveloped area
- —公開入札open bid or tender
- —公開裁判open court
- —公開捜査open criminal investigation
- —公開期間open period
- —総合開発integrated development
- —切開手術surgical operation
- —未開社会a primitive society
- —文明開化civilization and enlightenment; Japan's Westernization movement during the Meiji era (Westernisation)
- —開店休業being open but having virtually no business
- —開放経済open economy
- —開腹手術laparotomy (abdominal surgery)
- —地域開発regional development; community development
- —海洋開発ocean development
- —気管切開tracheotomy
- —強制疎開forced evacuation
- —即日開票same-day counting of ballots
- —開析台地dissected plateau
- —公開の席in public
- —開発計画development project (program, programme, plan)
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