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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
- —開平extraction of square root
- —開明civilization; civilisation; enlightenment
- —開門opening gate
- —開立extraction of cubic root
- —開闢beginning of the world; creation
- —全開opening fully; full throttle; full power
- —創開grand opening
- —半開half-open; partly open; semicivilized; semicivilised
- —開陳stating (one's views); expressing
- —開帳public exhibition (of a Buddhist image); displaying (a Buddhist image); revealing (something that is supposed to remain hidden); opening (a gambling house); holding (a gambling party)
- —開講start of a course; start of lectures; opening of a new course; offering a course (for the first time)
- —開架open access (in a library); open shelves
- —開基founding (of a temple or sect); founder; laying the foundation (for something); base (topology); basis
- —続開resumption; continuing
- —新開opening (of uncultivated land)
- —開札opening or unsealing of bids
- —開巻opening a book; opening (part) of a book
- —開脚spreading the legs (wide apart); opening the legs
- —開腹making an incision in the abdomen; performing a laparotomy
- —開豁open; openminded
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