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開

開 U+958B, 開
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-958B
← 閊
[U+958A]		 CJK Unified Ideographs 閌 →
[U+958C]
See also: 开

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TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

開 (radical 169 門+4, 12 strokes, cangjie input 日弓一廿 (ANMT), four-corner 77441, composition ⿵門开)

Derived charactersEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • KangXi: page 1331, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41233
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1835, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4286, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+958B

ChineseEdit

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 開
Large seal script Small seal script
   

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 門 (“door”) + 一 (“latch”) + 廾 (“a pair of hands”) — a pair of hands opening a latched door. 一 and 廾 are combined into 开 since the seal script.

Etymology 1Edit

trad. 開
simp. 开
alt. forms 𫔭 obsolete Singapore simp.
𨵑
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PronunciationEdit

Note:
  • kŭi - vernacular;
  • kăi - literary.
Note:
  • khui - vernacular;
  • khai - literary.
Note:
  • kui1 - vernacular;
  • kai1 - literary.
Rime
Character 開
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 咍 (41)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 苦哀切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰʌi/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰəi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰɒi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰəj/
Li
Rong		 /kʰᴀi/
Wang
Li		 /kʰɒi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰɑ̆i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 kāi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 開 開
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 kāi kāi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khoj › ‹ khoj ›
Old
Chinese		 /*Nə-[k]ʰˤəj/ /*[k]ʰˤəj/
English to open (v.i.) to open (v.t.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 開
Reading # 1/1
No. 7348
Phonetic
component		 開
Rime
group		 微
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 開
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰɯːl/

DefinitionsEdit

開

  1. to open; to unlatch; to unfasten
  2. to start; to turn on; to switch on
    • 開電燈 / 开电灯  ―  kāi diàndēng  ―  to switch the light on
    • 開電腦 / 开电脑  ―  kāi diànnǎo  ―  to turn on the computer
  3. to begin; to start
  4. to boil; to seethe
  5. to write out (a prescription, check, invoice, etc.)
  6. to book (a hotel room)
  7. to operate; to drive (a vehicle)
  8. apart; away
  9. (Cantonese) Habitual aspect particle.
  10. (physics) Short for 開爾文／开尔文 (Kāi'ěrwén, “kelvin”).
  11. A surname​.
SynonymsEdit
AntonymsEdit
CompoundsEdit
Derived terms from 開
DescendantsEdit
  • → Lao: ໄຂ (khai, “open”)
  • → Thai: ไข (kǎi, “open”)

Etymology 2Edit

trad. 開
simp. 开
alt. forms 𫔭 obsolete Singapore simp.
K

Borrowing from English K (“karat”).

PronunciationEdit

DefinitionsEdit

開

  1. karat (measure of gold purity)
CompoundsEdit

JapaneseEdit

 
Ryakuji for 開, based on ryakuji for 門; compare also 間 and 𫔭.

KanjiEdit

開

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. open

ReadingsEdit

AntonymsEdit

  • (to open): 閉

Derived termsEdit

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

開 • (gae) (hangeul 개, revised gae, McCune-Reischauer kae, Yale kay)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

開 (khai, khơi, khui)

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