开 — Chinese character
开
kāi
to open; to start, to initiate, to begin
- Pinyin
- kāi
- Radical
- 55 ⼶ (Two Hands)
- Strokes
- 4
- Components
- 一 廾
- Formation
- ideographic — Simplified form of 開; hands 廾 lifting the latch 一 of a door
- Traditional
- 開
Common words with 开
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 开始 (開始) | kāi shǐ | to begin; to start; beginning; start |
| 开发 (開發) | kāi fā | to exploit (a resource); to open up (for development); to develop |
| 离开 (離開) | lí kāi | to depart; to leave |
| 公开 (公開) | gōng kāi | open; overt; public; to make public; to release |
| 开放 (開放) | kāi fàng | to bloom; to open |
| 召开 (召開) | zhào kāi | to convene (a conference or meeting); to convoke |
| 开展 (開展) | kāi zhǎn | to launch; to develop |
| 打开 (打開) | dǎ kāi | to open; to show (a ticket) |
| 开心 (開心) | kāi xīn | to feel happy; to rejoice |
| 展开 (展開) | zhǎn kāi | to unfold; to spread out; to open up; to launch; to carry out |
| 开车 (開車) | kāi chē | to drive a car (or train etc); (slang) to post sexual content online; to make a sexual joke |
| 分开 (分開) | fēn kāi | to separate; to part |
English words written with 开
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.