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kāi
1. to open
2. to start
3. to turn on
4. to boil
5. to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc)
6. to operate (vehicle)
7. abbr. for [[開爾文|开尔文]] degrees Kelvin
HSK 1 Very Common • Top 0%

Example Sentences (3)

门开着呢,请进。
Mén kāi zhe ne, qǐng jìn.
The door is open; please come in.
Text 1
服务员,我房间的门打不开了。
fúwùyuán,wǒ fángjiān de mén dǎ bù kāi le.
Excuse me, the door to my room won't open.
Text 3
当然是春天,天气不那么冷了,草和树都绿了,花也开了。
Dāngrán shì chūntiān,tiānqì bú nàme lěng le,cǎo hé shù dōu lǜ le,huā yě kāi le.
Of course it's spring, the weather isn't that cold anymore, the grass and the trees have turned green, and the flowers have bloomed too.
Text 3

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
1
Character Frequency Rank
93
Word Frequency Rank
59 of 84,292