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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
- —能力開発development of potential ability; capacity development
- —開運商法fraudulent business of selling goods by claiming they will bring supernatural benefits
- —配備開始start of deployment
- —和同開珎wadō kaichin; Japan's first circulated coinage (minted in 708 CE)
- —国土開発national land development (e.g. building infrastructure, roads, etc.)
- —開発事業development (work)
- —開発拠点development block; development base
- —情報開示information discovery; disclosure of information
- —開放骨折open fracture
- —学童疎開evacuation of school children (from major cities to more rural areas, esp. during late World War II)
- —角膜切開keratotomy; corneal incision
- —開発領主local warriors, or provincial or district officials, who developed paddy field lands
- —同時展開simultaneous development; spreading at the same time (e.g. two phenomena)
- —公開書簡open letter
- —資源開発resource development; resource exploitation (usu. natural resources)
- —放送開始start of broadcast; commencement of transmission; sign-on
- —会陰切開episiotomy; perineotomy
- —海外展開overseas deployment (e.g. military forces); overseas expansion (e.g. business operations)
- —試合開始start of a match; beginning of a game; kickoff
- —運転再開resumption of service (train, bus, etc.)
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