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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
- —開教師Buddhist missionary, esp. in Jodo, Pure Land, etc. sects; Buddhist minister (in the West)
- —開始日start date
- —投開票casting and counting votes
- —開山堂temple hall commemorating its founding or its founder
- —打開策plan to overcome an obstacle or break out of a deadlock; breakthrough solution
- —開瞼器eyelid speculum; lid retractor
- —開音節open syllable
- —開口音(of Chinese) pronunciation of kanji without a medial between the initial consonant and center vowel; (of Japanese) the long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "a" and "u" sounds
- —裂開果dehiscent fruit
- —夜開草moonflower (Ipomoea alba)
- —開口率aperture ratio
- —小開扉opening a door for a moment (esp. on the train, when someone's foot is stuck, etc.)
- —伸開線involute
- —開経偈opening chant of a sutra
- —開発中under development; in development
- —公開鍵public key
- —公開文public text
- —開集合open set
- —開区間open interval
- —開頭術craniotomy
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