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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
- —開票結果results of the vote count
- —開票速報quick (flash) report of votes counted
- —公開練習public workout
- —公開録音public recording
- —開管分析open tube test
- —開発輸入develop-and-import formula
- —水平展開involvement of peer groups; application to similar products; grassroots (organization, development, movement)
- —市場開放opening up of a market; market liberalization
- —門戸開放open door policy
- —宇宙開闢(since) the beginning of the universe; (since) the dawn of time
- —縁故疎開evacuating to the homes of one's relatives in the countryside in wartime
- —開巻劈頭very beginning of a book
- —開眼供養ceremony to consecrate a newly made Buddhist statue or image by inserting the eyes (thereby investing it with soul)
- —開闢以来since the beginning of the world; since the dawn of history
- —局面打開breakthrough in the situation; break in the deadlocked situation
- —未開野蛮primitive and barbarous; uncivilized and barbaric
- —Ｍ字開脚spreading one's legs open wide with knees bent, creating the shape of the letter M (pornographic pose)
- —開発能力development capability
- —独自開発independently developed; proprietary
- —開店時間opening hours (of a store, restaurant, etc.)
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