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 open / to show (a ticket) / to turn on / to switch on
to pull open / to pull apart / to space out / to increase
to throw out / to get rid of
to move (sth) aside / to step aside / to move over (when sitting on a bench) / to shift (one's gaze)
to dismantle / to disassemble / to open up (sth sealed) / to unpick
to lift open / to tear open
to get over (a shock, bereavement etc) / to avoid dwelling on unpleasant things / to accept the situation and move on
to pry open or apart / to spread (sth) open with both hands
cannot figure out / to be unable to take a lighter view / to take things too hard / to be depressed / to fret over trifles
lit. to pull apart and knead to a pulp / fig. to analyze minutely from every angle / to chew sth over
(let's) not mince words; (let's) not beat about the bush
perturbative expansion (physics)
first awakening of love (usually of a girl) (idiom)
polling station / CL:處|处[chu4]
(fig.) to raise the curtain / to lift the curtain / to be a curtain raiser for
to assume a fighting stance / (fig.) to take the offensive
to dig into / to cut a mine into

Sentences with 开

nǐ
men
shǎn
ka̅i