打开 (dǎ kāi): meaning and stroke order
打开 (dǎ kāi) means to open, to show (a ticket), to turn on, to switch on.
打开
- Simplified
- 打开
- Traditional
- 打開
- Pinyin
- dǎ kāi
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Stroke order of 打开
打
- dá (loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. [da3]
- dǎ a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate"); to hit; to strike
- 5 strokes
Stroke by stroke
开
- kāi to open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start
- 4 strokes
- Traditional form: 開
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Meaning of 打开
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dǎ kāi
Traditional 打開
- to open
- to show (a ticket)
- to turn on
- to switch on
Radicals of the characters
- 打
- Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 5 strokes · 扌 on the left, 丁 on the right
- 开
- Radical 廾 (Kangxi radical 55) · 4 strokes · 一 on top, 廾 below
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
打开 in our stories
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他打开他的黑包。
tā dǎkāi tā de hēi bāo
He opens his black bag.
From the story Not my bag HSK 1
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妻子打开冰箱，手机就在牛奶旁边！
qīzi dǎkāi bīngxiāng shǒujī jiù zài niúnǎi pángbiān
His wife opens the fridge: the phone is right next to the milk!
From the story Where's my phone? HSK 2
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他打开一看，里面的沙发只有手机那么大！
tā dǎkāi yí kàn lǐmiàn de shāfā zhǐ yǒu shǒujī nàme dà
He opened it: the sofa inside was the size of a mobile phone!
From the story The ninety-nine-yuan sofa HSK 4
Stories using 打开
- Not my bag HSK 1
- Where's my phone? HSK 2
- The ninety-nine-yuan sofa HSK 4
- The dry floor HSK 6
- Great-uncle's wooden box HSK 6
- The day he rang the bell HSK 7–9 · Level 7
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).