开

ka̅i = k + ai1

to open / to start / to turn on / to boil / to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc) / to operate (a vehicle) / carat (gold) / abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1 er3 wen2] / abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1 ben3], book format

开 = 一 + 廾 : A bottle opener. Karl Marx is sitting in front of the airplane, begging for money. He's playing a flute and has his bottle opener ready for the next beer, but unfortunately, he'll be carried away, his hands cuffed, soon.

开 character breakdown

开
- 一
- 廾
  - 一
  - 丨
  - 丿

yi̅ = y + Ø1

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.

gǒng = gu + (e)ng3

hands joined

廾 = 丿 + 丨 + 一 : Handcuffs. Gitta Giraffe is sitting inside of the engine, her hands tied up with handcuffs. There's a flute as horizontal bar, and attached to either side are a banana and a dinosaur bone, so that she cannot slide off the chain.

Characters with 开 as component

qia̅n = qi + an1

marsh / float

qia̅n = qi + an1

name of a river flowing through Gansu to Shaanxi Province

yán = y + an2

(used in naming bitterns and several other species of heron) / also pr. [jian1]

qia̅n = qi + an1

name of a mountain

qia̅n = qi + an1

(arch.) firefly

jia̅n = ji + an1

fully grown pig / 3-year old pig

jiǎn = ji + an3

callus (patch or hardened skin) / corns (on the feet)

jiǎn = ji + an3

(bound form) callus

xíng = xi + (e)ng2

long-necked wine flask

Words with 开

(of news) to spread / to get around

to be awfully (busy etc)

to speak without thinking (idiom) / to blurt sth out

to cast or put aside / to forget for a while

open letter

Asian Development Bank

to stretch out

arming system

variant of 信口開河|信口开河[xin4 kou3 kai1 he2]

to reverse a vehicle / to drive backwards

keep your thoughts to yourself

octavo

public expenditure

to denounce

open forum

,

one man can hold the pass against ten thousand enemies (idiom)

One key opens one lock. / There is a different solution for each problem. (idiom)

ratio seventy to thirty / thirty percent failure, seventy percent success

thirty percent failure, seventy percent success, the official PRC verdict on Mao Zedong

unable to understand / can't get the point

Sentences with 开

nǐ

men

shǎn

ka̅i

Get out of the way!