开 kāi▶ เปิด

Stroke order

开 is written in 4 strokes.

• 开

Senses

1. to open (transitive or intransitive)
2. (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start
3. to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run
4. to boil
5. to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc)
6. (directional complement) away; off
7. carat (gold)

Example sentences

• 他开电视。Tā kāi diànshì.He turns on the TV.
• 请开电脑。Qǐng kāi diànnǎo.Please turn on the computer.

Related words

• 开始เริ่ม
• 离开ออกจาก; ใบไม้
• 开心มีความสุข
• 开玩笑ล้อเลียน, เยาะเย้ย
• 公开เปิด
• 召开เรียกประชุม

开 is pronounced kāi and means “เปิด”. You will meet it in HSK 1, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 开 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.