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开 — stroke order
Watch how to write 开 (kāi) stroke by stroke. 开 has 4 strokes and means “to open”. It appears in common words such as 开始 (to begin) and 开心 (to feel happy). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.
Common words with 开
The most common words that use 开 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
开始kāishǐto begin开心kāixīnto feel happy离开líkāito depart打开dǎkāito open开门kāiménopen door开车kāichēto drive a car
How 开 is written
- Radical
- 廾
- Components
- 一 ＋ 廾
- Formation
- Ideographic — Simplified form of 開; hands 廾 lifting the latch 一 of a door.