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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
- —開襟unbuttoning a collar; opening up (one's heart); open-necked shirt
- —散開deployment; spreading out; dispersal
- —開銀development bank
- —開悟wisdom; enlightenment
- —開傘opening of a parachute
- —開梱open (as of a pack)
- —開管open pipe
- —開坑opening of mine
- —開所opening (of a new office, facility, etc.)
- —開度divergence; aperture
- —開法extraction of roots; evolution
- —開学establishment of a university
- —開音long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "a" and "u" sounds
- —開栓unstopping; uncorking; uncapping; opening; connecting (e.g. gas supply)
- —開創initial opening (esp. of a temple)
- —開錠unlocking
- —開経prefatory sutra; opening a sutra; beginning to read a sutra
- —開庁opening a government office (for the day); opening a new government office
- —開渠open ditch; open channel; open conduit; open culvert
- —開裂(bond) cleavage; splitting open
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