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
开垦
kāikěn
to reclaim wasteland; to bring land under cultivation
Characters in this word
垦 kěn
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 土 — soil, earth
- Made of
- 艮 blunt 土 soil, earth
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 早期移民开垦荒地时，不得不同时修渠引水。 Zǎoqī yímín kāikěn huāngdì shí, bùdébù tóngshí xiū qú yǐn shuǐ. When early settlers reclaimed wasteland, they also had to build channels to bring in water.
- 农民们开垦了山坡上的荒地，种上了茶树。 Nóngmínmen kāikěn le shānpō shàng de huāngdì, zhòng shàng le cháshù. The farmers reclaimed the wasteland on the hillside and planted tea trees.
- 爷爷年轻时在北方开垦过一大片土地。 Yéye niánqīng shí zài běifāng kāikěn guo yí dà piàn tǔdì. When he was young, Grandpa reclaimed a large stretch of land in the north.
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