Memory phrase for the Kanji: 開


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Meaning

open

Pronunciation

KAI
hiraku, akeru

Explanation

Outside: gate , inside: image of a toori , which is the entrance gate =とりい of a Shintō-shrine - both are symbols for being open

Mnemonic

A "toori"-gate is (always) open.

Radicals

gateThe radical mon ia the picture of a gate.
openImage of a toori, the entrance gate of a Shinto shrine, with a double traverse beam
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Vocabulary

 開ける  あける  to open/to unwrap
 開く  ひらく  to open (e.g. a festival)
 再開  さいかい  reopening, resumption, restarting
 開発  かいはつ  development/exploitation
 切開  せっかい  clearing (land), opening up, cutting through
 展開  てんかい  develop, expansion (opposite of compression)
 打開  だかい  break in the deadlock
 未開  みかい  savage land, backward region, uncivilized
 開会  かいかい  opening of a meeting


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