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Mythic Mandarin

开市 (kāi shì): meaning and stroke order

开市 (kāi shì) means (of a store, stock market etc) to open for trading.

开市

Simplified
开市
Traditional
開市
Pinyin
kāi shì

Stroke order of 开市

开

  • kāi to open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start
  • 4 strokes
  • Traditional form: 開

Stroke by stroke

市

  • shì market; city
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 开市

  1. kāi shì Traditional 開市
    • (of a store, stock market etc) to open for trading
    • to make the first transaction of the day

Radicals of the characters

开
Radical 廾 (Kangxi radical 55) · 4 strokes · 一 on top, 廾 below
市
Radical 巾 (Kangxi radical 50) · 5 strokes · 亠 on top, 巾 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.

开市 in our stories

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  • 两年后，公司在纽约上市，苗立站在交易所的台上，敲响了开市的钟声。

    liǎng nián hòu gōngsī zài Niǔyuē shàngshì Miáo Lì zhàn zài jiāoyìsuǒ de tái shàng qiāo xiǎng le kāishì de zhōngshēng

    Two years later the company listed in New York, and Miao Li stood on the exchange podium and rang the opening bell.

    From the story The day he rang the bell HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 开市

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).