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

= + : 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

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.
hands joined

= 丿 + + : 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

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

= + : 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.
short name for Taiyuan 太原[Tai4 yuan2]
and / furthermore / also / together with / (not) at all / simultaneously / to combine / to join / to merge

= + : Brunhilde and a mean crocodile are amalgamating to a new super form in the engine's bathroom. They are forming the connection with bottle openers.

= + : Mnemonic symbol: combine harvester.

Brunhilde wants to harvest all the weed in the engine's bathroom with her combine harvester, but a bullfrog is standing in her way, protesting against the exploitation of nature's plants.
to combine / to amalgamate

= + : Brunhilde and a mean crocodile are amalgamating to a new super form in the engine's bathroom. They are forming the connection with bottle openers.
variant of 並|并[bing4]

= + : Brunhilde and a mean crocodile are amalgamating to a new super form in the engine's bathroom. They are forming the connection with bottle openers.
to grind / study / research

= + : Maud Younger is lacking salt for her ... . Luckily, there's a salt stone just inside the anthill's kitchen, so she uses a bottle opener to grind off some salt.
surname Xing

= + : A device with a knife and a bottle opener is a Swiss pocket knife. Marie Curie is awaiting punishment for smuggling a Swiss pocket knife past the engine's kitchen. The punishment is that her Swiss pocket knife will be taken away.
punishment / penalty / sentence / torture / corporal punishment

= + : A device with a knife and a bottle opener is a Swiss pocket knife. Marie Curie is awaiting punishment for smuggling a Swiss pocket knife past the engine's kitchen. The punishment is that her Swiss pocket knife will be taken away.
to appear / to look / form / shape

= + : Marie Curie (xi) is modding her fake Santa Clause beard (彡) into a new shape (形). With a bottle opener (开) she carves the beard in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) so that it gets a fractal (形) shape (形).
beautiful

= + : Maud Younger just entered anthill and bumped into Bessie Coleman. She has a bottle opener with her and uses it to put on her beer goggles, and as a result she admires Bessie for her beauty.
surname Xing / place name
15 years old / hairpin for bun

Words with 开

to release / to let go / to loosen / to untie / to come loose
to convene (a conference or meeting) / to convoke / to call together
to start an engine / to boot up (a computer) / to press Ctrl-Alt-Delete / to begin shooting a film or TV show
prologue of play / opening remarks / preamble (of speeches, articles etc)
Cairo, capital of Egypt
to open / to start (a business etc) / to set up
(sports) open championship / open (as in "the US Open")
blooming / in full flower
opening (chess etc) / early stage of game, match, work, activity etc
to open an account (bank etc)
to accelerate at full power (idiom); at full speed / fig. to work as hard as possible
besides / except / to get rid of (sb) / (math.) to divide
to open the back door / fig. under the counter / to do a secret or dishonest deal / to let sth in by the back door
suddenly opens up to a wide panorama (idiom); to come to a wide clearing / fig. everything becomes clear at once / to achieve speedy enlightenment
to clear the way
to make public; to bring into the open
to publicize / openness (of government, PRC equivalent of "glasnost")
to clear a wild area for cultivation / to put under the plow

Sentences with 开

nǐ
men
shǎn
ka̅i