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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
- —開散divergence (of the eyes)
- —開回路open circuit
- —開口部aperture
- —開墾地cultivated land
- —開催式opening ceremony (of an event, show, etc.)
- —開催中in session; in progress; under way; open
- —核開発nuclear development
- —公開状open letter
- —疎開者evacuee
- —半開国underdeveloped country; half-civilized country; half-civilised country
- —未開墾uncultivated; wild
- —未開拓undeveloped (area); unexplored (field of study); wild (areas); untapped area
- —未開発undeveloped (countries); backward; unentered
- —へき開cleavage (in gems)
- —乱開発environmentally damaging (indiscriminate) development
- —新開地newly-opened land; recently-settled region; frontier; new residential area; new development
- —開会日opening day
- —開会式opening ceremony
- —開架式making materials in a library available in open stacks
- —開校式school opening ceremony
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