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
开天辟地
kāitiānpìdì
epoch-making; unprecedented
Characters in this word
辟 pì
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 辛 — bitter
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 这是一个开天辟地的发明，从此人们的生活完全不同了。 Zhè shì yí ge kāitiānpìdì de fāmíng, cóngcǐ rénmen de shēnghuó wánquán bù tóng le. This is an epoch-making invention that completely changed people's lives.
- 第一列火车开动时，人们觉得这是开天辟地的大事。 Dì yī liè huǒchē kāidòng shí, rénmen juéde zhè shì kāitiānpìdì de dàshì. When the first train started moving, people felt it was an epoch-making event.
- 这对他们来说是开天辟地头一回，所以大家都很兴奋。 Zhè duì tāmen lái shuō shì kāitiānpìdì tóu yì huí, suǒyǐ dàjiā dōu hěn xīngfèn. For them it was a first of its kind, so everyone was very excited.
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