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开

kāi

open

Simplified form of 開. Pictograph of two hands (廾) opening the bolt (一) on a door (門). The traditional component 門 was removed for simplification.

Components
門 deleted component

門  Deleted component

mén

  

door

The traditional component 門 was removed for simplification.

◎ iconic component

◎  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts a bolt on a door.

廾 iconic component

廾  Iconic component

gǒng

  

two hands

Evolution

开 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
开 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
开 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
开 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

开 (開) 

kāi

open; initiate, begin, start; to open; to start; to turn on; to boil; to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc); to operate (a vehicle); carat (gold); abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kāi​'ěr​wén]; abbr. for 開本|开本[kāi​běn], book format

Most common words with 开
Freq.
Word
Meaning

开始

to begin

开

to open

离开

to depart

开心

to feel happy

开发

to develop

Component uses

Meaning component in 2 characters (0 verified)

荆 妍

Sound component in 5 characters (0 verified)

邢 趼 锎 岍 汧

Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 99.9840% of movies

65th most common character in movies

94th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

4

Traditional

開

Unicode

U+5F00


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