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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
- —開板publishing (esp. using woodblock printing)
- —開先groove (in welding)
- —開枕bringing out the pillows and futon (in Zen Buddhism); sleeping
- —開浴bathing (in a Zen Temple)
- —開式opening of a ceremony
- —裂開dehiscence; cleavage; fission
- —開炉first lighting of the hearth in a Zen temple (first day of the 10th or 11th month)
- —開宴opening of a banquet; opening of a wedding reception
- —開缶opening a can
- —開湯opening of a hot spring or bathhouse
- —開映beginning of a screening (at a movie theatre); starting a screening
- —開城Kaesong (North Korea)
- —開張wingspread (of an insect)
- —開村creating a new village or town; opening a village (e.g. for Olympic athletes)
- —開府establishment of the shogunate; founding a shogunate
- —開胸thoracotomy
- —開披opening (a letter); unsealing
- —開室opening (e.g. library, museum, etc); being open; making a room accessible to people; (organization) being available to take on work
- —開頭craniotomy
- —開咬open bite; apertognathia
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