Kilo Lingo

开

kāi

Traditional: 開

HSK 2
#405 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to open; to start, to turn on

Stroke order

Stroke order for 开

开

Examples

。

Please open the door.

？

Has the engine started?

灯dēng。

Turn on the light.

窗chuāng户hù。

Please open the window.

商shāng店diàn九jiǔ。

The shop opens at nine.

开 (kāi) - to open; to start, to turn on.

Related words

不好

not good, bad, poor

那边

over there, that side

弄

to do, to get, to handle, to mess with (informal)

喔

oh, wow (exclamation of surprise)

Appears in 8 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 开.

开始kāi shǐto begin, to start, beginning离开lí kāito leave, to depart from开心kāi xīnhappy, joyful, delighted打开dǎ kāito open, to turn on, to switch on开玩笑kāi wán xiàoto joke, to make a joke开枪kāi qiāngto fire a gun, to shoot开车kāi chēdrive a car放开fàng kāilet go, release, set free

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This word is part of lesson 9.