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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
- —開始価格starting price; ask price; ask; suggested opening price
- —公開処刑public execution; public embarrassment
- —情報公開freedom of information; access to information; disclosure of information (e.g. by the government); releasing information (of an organization or an individual); making public
- —開花前線(cherry) blossom front; flower front
- —新装開店reopening a shop after renovation; post-refurbishment reopening
- —転迷開悟casting away one's vices or worldly desires and achieving enlightenment
- —都市開発urban development
- —自主開発independent development
- —改革開放Reform and Opening-up (Chinese economic policy)
- —開発独裁developmental dictatorship (authoritarian form of government that pursues rapid economic development at the expense of democratic freedoms)
- —未公開株unlisted stocks; unlisted shares; unquoted shares
- —西部開拓settlement of the American frontier; settlement of the Old West
- —開幕投手opening-game pitcher
- —商品開発product development
- —開発許可development permit
- —公開会社public company; publicly listed company; publicly traded company; (Japanese) stock company that does not impose restrictions on share transfers
- —近日公開coming soon (e.g. of a movie); soon to be released; soon to be made public
- —園庭開放opening up a kindergarten playground to young children and parents from the local area
- —自己開示self-disclosure
- —開運招福bringing luck and good fortune
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