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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
- —開票所ballot-counting place
- —開閉器switch
- —開閉機mechanical device for opening and closing (shutters, gates, etc.); (railway) crossing gate; barrier
- —開閉橋movable bridge
- —展開図interior elevation; expansion plan (of a ship); net (of a polyhedron); development
- —開腹術laparotomy
- —開催国host country (e.g. for a conference)
- —開催地place where a meeting (conference, etc.) is held; venue
- —開催日date (of an event, meeting, etc.)
- —開拓地reclaimed land; cleared land; area opened for development
- —開通式formal opening (e.g. of a railway, road, etc.); opening ceremony; inauguration ceremony
- —開票率percentage of votes counted so far
- —開幕戦opening game; (season) opener
- —未開人barbarian; savage; savage (primitive) people (race)
- —未開地savage (barbaric) land; backward region; undeveloped area
- —急展開rapid development; rapid unfolding
- —開放創open wound
- —開口数numerical aperture (in photography)
- —新開発new development; new discovery
- —未開封unopened; with an unbroken seal
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