Characters › 开
4 strokes · radical 廾 · HSK 1 · traditional 開
12 strokes · HSK 1 · simplified 开
A way to remember it
Two hands lifting the bar out of a gate. The traditional 開 still has the gate around it; the simplified form keeps only the hands and the bar.
A picture that makes the shape stick — not a claim about the character’s history.
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Shown in simplified. Converting whole words needs one-to-many knowledge this site does not have — 发 is 發 in 出发 but 髮 in 头发 — and a confidently wrong word would be worse than an honest simplified one.
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to open
kāi — to open
Radical 廾 · 4 strokes · HSK 1 · traditional 開
12 strokes · HSK 1 · simplified 开
A way to remember itTwo hands lifting the bar out of a gate. The traditional 開 still has the gate around it; the simplified form keeps only the hands and the bar.