开 kāi
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 廾 — two hands
- Made of
- 一 one 廾 two hands
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
开头
kāitóu
to start, to begin; beginning
Characters in this word
头 tóu
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 大 — big, great, vast, high, deep
- Made of
- ⺀ ice 大 big, great, vast, high, deep
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 演讲开头要抓住听众注意力，否则后面很难展开。 Yǎnjiǎng kāitóu yào zhuā zhù tīngzhòng zhùyìlì, fǒuzé hòumiàn hěn nán zhǎnkāi. The beginning of a speech should catch the audience's attention, otherwise it is hard to develop the rest.
- 这篇文章的开头写得很吸引人。 Zhè piān wénzhāng de kāitóu xiě de hěn xīyǐn rén. The opening of this article is very engaging.
- 万事开头难，坚持下去就会好起来。 Wànshì kāitóu nán, jiānchí xiàqù jiù huì hǎo qǐlái. Every beginning is hard; if you keep going, it will get better.
Related words
- 打开 dǎkāi to open, to turn on
- 开 kāi to open; to drive; to turn on
- 开车 kāichē to drive a car
- 开会 kāihuì to have a meeting
- 开玩笑 kāiwánxiào to joke
- 分开 fēnkāi to separate; to part
- 开机 kāijī to turn on a device
- 开心 kāixīn happy
- 开学 kāixué to start school
- 离开 líkāi to leave
- 走开 zǒukāi to go away
- 公开 gōngkāi public; open