开

to open; to start; to drive

No. 57 most used · 0.27% of everyday spoken Chinese: about 1 character in every 367.

How it's built

• 一one
• 廾two hands

A way to remember it

Two hands (廾) lifting the bar (一) off a door: open.

Words

• 开始

  kāi shǐ

  to begin; to start; beginning; start
• 离开

  lí kāi

  to depart; to leave
• 开心

  kāi xīn

  to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time
• 打开

  dǎ kāi

  to open; to show (a ticket); to turn on
• 开玩笑

  kāi wán xiào

  to play a joke; to make fun of; to joke
• 开枪

  kāi qiāng

  to open fire; to shoot a gun

Sentences

• 他今天有点不开心。

  tā jīn tiān yǒu diǎn bù kāi xīn

  He is a little bit unhappy today.
• 他正在学怎么开车。

  tā zhèng zài xué zěn me kāi chē

  He is learning how to drive a car.
• 你现在可以开始了。

  nǐ xiàn zài kě yǐ kāi shǐ le

  You can start right now.
• 你的后门是开着的。

  nǐ de hòu mén shì kāi zhe de

  Your back door was open.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.