开 (開) kāi
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kāi
verb
to open
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 开通 (ABC 'kāi' 开 v 1; GHC '开' 2; NCCED 1 '开' 1) -
kāi
proper noun
Kai
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Name 名字
Notes: (ABC 'kāi' 开 n 2; GHC '开' 10) -
kāi
verb
to hold an event
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: For example, 开会 'to have a meeting' (ABC 'kāi' 开 v 9; GHC '开' 7; NCCED 1 '开' 12) -
kāi
verb
to drive; to operate
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: For example, 开车 'drive a car' (ABC 'kāi' 开 v 6; NCCED 1 '开' 3) -
kāi
verb
to boil
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Temperature
Notes: For example, 开水 'boil water' (ABC 'kāi' 开 v 13; NCCED 1 '开' 16) -
kāi
verb
to melt
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Temperature
Notes: (NCCED 1 '开' 7) -
kāi
verb
to come loose; to break open
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (ABC 'kāi' 开 v 4; NCCED 1 '开' 6) -
kāi
verb
to depart; to move
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (GHC '开' 6) -
kāi
verb
to write
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Writing
Notes: Such as, to write a prescription, a check, etc (NCCED 1 '开' 13) -
kāi
verb
to issue
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Writing
Notes: For example, 开工资 'to issue wages' (ABC 'kāi' 开 v 15; NCCED 1 '开' 15) -
kāi
verb
to lift restrictions
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (NCCED 1 '开' 9) -
kāi
verb
indicates expansion or continuation of a process
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
Notes: Used after a verb or an adjective (NCCED 3 '开' 2) -
kāi
verb
to switch on
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: As in switch on machinery or a light (ABC 'kāi' 开 v 4; NCCED 1 '开' 2) -
kāi
verb
to run; to set up
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Administration
Notes: As in run a company, in the sense of 建立 'to establish' (ABC 'kāi' 开 v 8; GHC '开' 3; NCCED 1 '开' 11) -
kāi
verb
to fire
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Administration
Notes: As in fire an employee (ABC 'kāi' 开 v 14; NCCED 1 '开' 17) -
kāi
verb
to eat
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Spoken Language
Notes: (ABC 'kāi' 开 v 16; NCCED 1 '开' 18) -
kāi
verb
to clear
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Nature
Notes: Of weather (NCCED 1 '开' 19) -
kāi
verb
to divide
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 分开 (ABC 'kāi' 开 v 10; GHC '开' 8; NCCED 1 '开' 20) -
kāi
noun
a division of standard size paper
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Writing
Notes: (ABC 'kāi' 开 n 1; NCCED 1 '开' 21) -
kāi
measure word
carat
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Jewelry
Notes: (ABC 'kāi' 开 n 3; NCCED 2 '开' 1) -
kāi
measure word
Kelvin
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Temperature
Notes: A measure of temperature, abbreviation for 开尔文 (NCCED 2 '开' 2) -
kāi
adverb
complement of result
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
Notes: Often acts as a complement of result expressing that the preceding verb acheives the result of opening or moving something from its original position. For example, 打开、解开等 (ABC 'kāi' 开 ad 1; NCCED 3 '开' 1) -
kāi
verb
to develop land; to reclaim land
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 开发地 'to develop land' (ABC 'kāi' 开 v 2; GHC '开' 4; NCCED 1 '开' 8) -
kāi
verb
to reveal; to display
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 展示 (GHC '开' 5) -
kāi
verb
to inspire
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 启发 (GHC '开' 6)
Contained in
- 开会祈祷(開會祈禱) invocation
- 开小差(開小差) to be absent-minded; to desert; to abscond from the army; to be absent without leave (AWOL)
- 开败(開敗) to wither and fall
- 开伙(開伙) to start providing food; to open today's service in a canteen
- 公开赛(公開賽) championship
- 开心见胆(開心見膽) to understand clearly
- 开车人(開車人) driver; person driving a vehicle
- 磨得开(磨得開) unembarrassed; without fear of impairing personal relation
- 离开故乡(離開故鄉) to leave one's homeland
- 开门红(開門紅) a good beginning
- 开光(開光) to consecrate; to bless ; reserved panel design
- 翻开(翻開) to open up
- 隔开(隔開) to separate; to divide
- 开小灶(開小灶) to give preferential treatment; to give special attention
- 开合(開合) to open and close
- 开地(開地) to clear land (for cultivation); to open up land
- 开放性(開放性) openness
- 开河(開河) to open a river; to dig a canal; to thaw (of river)
- 漫天开价(漫天開價) a sky-high opening price
- 开放系统(開放系統) open system
- 开绿灯(開綠燈) to give the green light; to give the go-ahead
- 开业大吉(開業大吉) celebration on opening a business
- 择不开(擇不開) impossible to separate; impossible to disentangle; cannot take time out
- 开路先锋(開路先鋒) pioneer; trailbreaker
- 不可开交(不可開交) to be awfully (busy etc)
- 闪开(閃開) to get out of the way
- 三阳开泰(三陽開泰) the last three months of the lunar calendar
- 从零开始(從零開始) to start from scratch
- 开除学籍(開除學籍) to expel from school
- 开山刀(開山刀) machete
- 三七开(三七開) ratio seventy to thirty; thirty percent failure, seventy percent success
- 不开窍(不開竅) unable to understand; can't get the point
- 免开尊口(免開尊口) keep your thoughts to yourself
- 双后前兵开局(雙后前兵開局) Double Queen Pawn Opening; Closed Game (chess)
- 小开(小開) boss's son; rich man's son; young master
- 开钻(開鑽) to start drilling
- 开单(開單) to bill; to open a tab
- 开拍(開拍) to begin shooting (a movie, a scene of a movie etc); to start the bidding (auction); to start a trading session (stock market)
- 开幕(開幕) to begin a performance; to open the curtain ; to inaugurate ; to establish a new government
- 开交(開交) (used with negative) to conclude; (impossible) to end; (can't) finish
- 撇开不谈(撇開不談) to ignore an issue
- 开始(開始) to begin; to start ; beginning; start
Also contained in
半开央圆唇元音 、 若开山脉 、 马拉开波 、 开元 、 米开朗琪罗 、 开前不圆唇元音 、 开口呼 、 开膛手杰克 、 开封地区
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷七十 志第二十一: 禮樂四 Volume 70 Treatises 23: Rites and Music 4 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 95
- 卷九十二 列傳第八十: 恩幸 Volume 92 Biographies 80: Noble Favorites History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 76
- 卷八十五 志第六十一 河渠三 Volume 85 Treatises 61: Rivers and Canals 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 60
- 卷五十 補列傳第四二 恩倖 Volume 50 Biographies 42: Favored by Nobles Book of Northern Qi 北齊書 — count: 54
- 卷八十四 志第六十 河渠二 Volume 84 Treatises 60: Rivers and Canals 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 51
- 卷八十八 志第六十四 河渠六 Volume 88 Treatises 64: Rivers and Canals 6 History of Ming 明史 — count: 41
- 卷九十五 志第四十八 河渠五 Volume 95 Treatises 48: Rivers and Canals 5 History of Song 宋史 — count: 41
- 卷11 廢出三帝紀 前廢帝廣陵王 Volume 11 Annals: Three Emperors that Fled - Emperor Qianfei, Prince of Guangling (also Emperor Houfei and Emperor Xiaowu) Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 41
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- 卷二 宋本紀中第二 文帝 孝武帝 前廢帝 Volume 2 Liu Song Annals 2: Emperor Wen, Emperor Xiaowu, Former Deposed Emperor History of the Southern Dynasties 南史 — count: 38
Collocations
- 开静 (開靜) 凡物開靜 — Guanzi 管子, 幼官第八 Chapter 8: Young Officials — count: 10
- 物开 (物開) 凡物開靜 — Guanzi 管子, 幼官第八 Chapter 8: Young Officials — count: 10
- 开闭 (開閉) 以時開閉 — Guanzi 管子, 立政第四 Chapter 4: Establishing Governance — count: 6
- 开塞 (開塞) 明於禁舍開塞之道 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十五 兵略訓 Chapter 15: Military Planning — count: 5
- 微子开 (微子開) 以微子開代殷後 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《周本紀》 Annals of Zhou — count: 4
- 田开 (田開) 為田開阡陌 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《秦本紀》 Annals of Qin — count: 3
- 舍开 (捨開) 明於禁舍開閉之道 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷八 本經訓 Chapter 8: Base Warp — count: 3
- 开阡陌 (開阡陌) 為田開阡陌 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《秦本紀》 Annals of Qin — count: 3
- 开田 (開田) 人之開田而耕者幾何家 — Guanzi 管子, 問第二十四 Chapter 24: Asking about Position — count: 2
- 不克开 (不克開) 不克開于民之麗 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 多方 Zhou Shu - Numerous Regions — count: 2