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Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

References

  • 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

Chinese

trad.
simp.
alt. forms 𫔭 obsolete Singapore simp.
𨵑

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script

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

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (29)
Final () (41)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
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
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
Reading # 1/1
No. 7348
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰɯːl/

Definitions

  1. to open; to unlatch; to unfasten
  2. to start; to turn on; to switch on
    • 電燈 / 电灯   kāi diàndēng   to switch the light on
    • 電腦 / 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. (loanword, from English K) karat
  12. A surname.

Synonyms

Antonyms

Compounds


Japanese

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

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. open

Readings

Antonyms

  • (to open):

Derived terms


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(khai, khơi, khui)

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