开放 kāifàng▶ Mở ra, khai thông

Stroke order

开放 is written in 12 strokes across 2 characters.

• 开 — 4 strokes
• 放 — 8 strokes

Senses

1. to bloom
2. to open
3. to be open (to the public)
4. to open up (to the outside)
5. to be open-minded
6. unrestrained by convention
7. unconstrained in one's sexuality

Related words

• 公开mở
• 召开triệu tập
• 展开Mở
• 开发Sự phát triển
• 开水Nước sôi
• 播放chơi; vở kịch

开放 is pronounced kāifàng and means “Mở ra, khai thông”. You will meet it in HSK 5, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 开放 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.