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Mythic Mandarin

张开 (zhāng kāi): meaning and stroke order

张开 (zhāng kāi) means to open up, to spread, to extend.

张开

Simplified
张开
Traditional
張開
Pinyin
zhāng kāi

Stroke order of 张开

张

  • Zhāng surname Zhang
  • zhāng to open up; to spread
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 張

Stroke by stroke

开

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 张开

  1. zhāng kāi Traditional 張開
    • to open up
    • to spread
    • to extend

Radicals of the characters

张
Radical 弓 (Kangxi radical 57) · 7 strokes · 弓 on the left, 长 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.

张开 in our stories

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  • 他张开双臂，想去抱住它，可是炽热的光芒让他口渴难忍，喉咙像着火了一样。

    tā zhāngkāi shuāngbì xiǎng qù bào zhù tā kěshì chìrè de guāngmáng ràng tā kǒukě nánrěn hóulong xiàng zháohuǒ le yíyàng

    He opened his arms to embrace it, but the scorching light gave him an unbearable thirst, and his throat felt as if it were on fire.

    From the story Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 张开

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).