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
开采
kāicǎi
to mine; to extract
Characters in this word
采 cǎi
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 釆 — to distinguish
- Made of
- 爫 claws, nails, talons 木 tree
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 如果继续无序开采，地下水位下降的问题将更加棘手。 Rúguǒ jìxù wúxù kāicǎi, dìxià shuǐwèi xiàjiàng de wèntí jiāng gèngjiā jíshǒu. If disorderly extraction continues, the problem of falling groundwater levels will become even more difficult.
- 这片山区的煤炭已经开采了一百多年。 Zhè piàn shānqū de méitàn yǐjīng kāicǎi le yì bǎi duō nián. Coal in this mountain area has been mined for over a hundred years.
- 工人们在山里开采石头，再用卡车运到城里。 Gōngrénmen zài shān lǐ kāicǎi shítou, zài yòng kǎchē yùn dào chéng lǐ. Workers extract stone in the mountains and then truck it to the city.
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