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開

開

See also: 开

Translingual

Han character

開 (radical 169 門+4, 12 strokes, cangjie input 日弓一廿 (ANMT), four-corner 77441, composition ⿵門开)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 1331, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41233
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1835, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4286, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+958B

Chinese

trad. 開
simp. 开
alt. forms 𫔭 obsolete Singapore simp.
𨵑

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 開
Large seal script Small seal script

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 門 ‎(“door”) + 一 ‎(“latch”) + 廾 ‎(“a pair of hands”) — a pair of hands opening a latched door. 一 and 廾 are combined into 一 since the seal script.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 開
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 咍 (41)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 苦哀切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰʌi/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰəi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰɒi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰəj/
Li
Rong		 /kʰᴀi/
Wang
Li		 /kʰɒi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰɑ̆i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 kāi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 開 開
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 kāi kāi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khoj › ‹ khoj ›
Old
Chinese		 /*Nə-[k]ʰˤəj/ /*[k]ʰˤəj/
English to open (v.i.) to open (v.t.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 開
Reading # 1/1
No. 7348
Phonetic
component		 開
Rime
group		 微
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 開
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰɯːl/

Definitions

開

  1. to open; to unlatch; to unfasten
  2. to start; to turn on; to switch on
    • 開電燈 / 开电灯  ―  kāi diàndēng  ―  to switch the light on
    • 開電腦 / 开电脑  ―  kāi diànnǎo  ―  to turn on the computer
  3. to begin; to start
  4. to boil; to seethe
  5. to write out (a prescription, check, invoice, etc.)
  6. to book (a hotel room)
  7. to operate; to drive (a vehicle)
  8. apart; away
  9. (Cantonese) Habitual aspect particle.
  10. (physics) Short for 開爾文／开尔文 (kāi'ěrwén, “kelvin”).
  11. (loanword, from English K) karat
  12. A surname​.

Synonyms

Antonyms

Compounds

Japanese

Ryakuji for 開, based on ryakuji for 門; compare also 間 and 𫔭.

Kanji

開

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. open

Readings

Antonyms

  • (to open): 閉

Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

開 • ‎(gae) (hangeul 개, revised gae, McCune-Reischauer kae, Yale kay)

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Vietnamese

Han character

開 (khai, khơi, khui)

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