开

kāi

to open (transitive or intransitive)

(of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start; to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run; to boil; to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc); (directional complement) away; off; carat (gold); abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1 er3 wen2]; abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1 ben3], book format

bar (一) + two hands pushing (廾) = to open

Two hands (廾) push apart a horizontal bar (一), physically enacting the act of opening. The image is a door being unlatched and swung wide.

一+廾→开
一A horizontal barSemantic
廾Two hands working togetherSemantic

你能帮我开一下窗户吗?

nǐ néng bāng wǒ kāi yī xià chuāng hu ma?

can you help me open the window?

医生给他开了一些药。

yī shēng gěi tā kāi le yī xiē yào。

the doctor wrote him a prescription for some medicine.

Words with 开

开打

kāi dǎ

(of a sports competition or match) to commence

离开

lí kāi

to depart; to leave

开票

kāi piào

to open ballot boxes

李开复

lǐ kāi fù

Kai-Fu Lee (1961-), Taiwanese computer scientist and IT executive, founding president of Google China 2005-2009

开市

kāi shì

(of a store, stock market etc) to open for trading

开示

kāi shì

to instruct (novices); to preach; to teach; to reveal

散开

sàn kāi

to separate

封开县

fēng kāi xiàn

Fengkai, a county in Zhaoqing City 肇慶市|肇庆市[Zhao4 qing4 Shi4], Guangdong

解开

jiě kāi

to untie

开门见山

kāi mén jiàn shān

lit. to open the door and see the mountain; fig. to get right to the point (idiom)

开始

kāi shǐ

to begin

掰开

bāi kāi

to pull apart

More characters with 一

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