Chinese symbol for “inaugurate”
开幕
kāi mù
Traditional: 開幕
to open (a conference); to inaugurate
The closest CC-CEDICT match for inaugurate is 开幕 (kāi mù), defined as: to open (a conference); to inaugurate.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “inaugurate”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 揭牌 | jiē pái | to unveil the plaque for (a school, shop, stadium etc); to inaugurate; to officially open |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 开幕.
| 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 |
| 幕后 (幕後) | mù hòu | behind the scenes |
| 字幕 | zì mù | subtitles; captions (of a movie etc) |
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.