Character Details
| open | Ascii: 22799 | w274 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 开 | kāi | kye | 1 | 一 (horizontal) + 廾 (two hands) → open | 开 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Here we have two hands opening a gate. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - I had a great time/had a lot of fun | - I'm so happy for you | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 42 - 廾 | gǒng | pylon | two hands | two‑handed gesture | 弄 共 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 一 (horizontal) + 廾 (two hands) → open | 廾 (semantic: hands) | — | pure semantic | ||||||||