开

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See also 開, 丹, 井, 幵, and 并

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Translingual [edit]

Stroke order
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Etymology [edit]

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 干 + 干 (“trunk”)

Two trunks are of the same height. {not to confuse with 幵!}

Han character [edit]

开 (radical 55 廾+1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 一廿 (MT), composition ⿱一廾)

  1. open
  2. initiate, begin, start

Derived characters [edit]

See also [edit]

  • 元 発 (graphically similar)

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Cantonese [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

开 (traditional 開, Yale hoi1)

Mandarin [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

开 (traditional 開, pinyin kāi (kai1), Wade-Giles k'ai1)

Compounds [edit]

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