开

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[edit] Translingual

Stroke order
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[edit] Etymology

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

Two trunks are of the same height.

[edit] Han character

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

  1. 開 was simplified to this character
  2. open
  3. initiate, begin, start

[edit] References

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

开 (traditional 開, Yale hoi1)

[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Hanzi

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

[edit] Compounds

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