HSK 6 · Adjectives

开明 kāimíng “enlightened” in Chinese

Traditional 開明

What 开明 means

  1. enlightened
  2. open-minded
  3. enlightenment

How to say 开明

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale开kāi1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale明míng2nd tone, rising

开明 in a sentence

  1. 他一直都对他的未来事业保持着开明的心态。

    Tā yìzhí dōu duì tā de wèilái shìyè bǎochí zhe kāimíng de xīntài.

    He has always kept an open mind about his future career.

    Sentence #10098963 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 开明 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 开 (kāi) with each of its parts in a different colour
开kāito open
  • 一one · yī
  • 廾two hands · gǒng

Memory aidSimplified from 開: two hands lifting the bar of a gate 門: to open.

The character 明 (míng) with each of its parts in a different colour
明míngbright
  • 日sun · rì
  • 月moon · yuè

Memory aidThe light of the sun 日 and the moon 月 together: bright.

How to write 开明

开 4 strokes · 明 8 strokes

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开明 (kāimíng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 开明 (kāimíng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 开明

Words with 开

开kāi · to open开车kāichē · to drive a car开始kāishǐ · to begin开学kāixué · to start a new school term打开dǎkāi · to open离开líkāi · leave开会kāihuì · to have a meeting开花kāihuā · to bloom分开fēnkāi · to separate开机kāijī · to switch on (a device)

Words with 明

明天míngtiān · tomorrow明年míngnián · next year明白míngbai · clear聪明cōngming · intelligent说明shuōmíng · to explain证明zhèngmíng · proof明确míngquè · clear表明biǎomíng · to make clear发明fāmíng · to invent光明guāngmíng · bright

More words: Adjectives

剧烈jùliè · violent举足轻重jǔzúqīngzhòng · to play a decisive role开阔kāikuò · wide开朗kāilǎng · cheerful慷慨kāngkǎi · generous刻不容缓kèbùrónghuǎn · extremely urgent可观kěguān · considerable恳切kěnqiè · earnest

FAQs

开明 (kāimíng) means “enlightened” or “open-minded”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it kāimíng: kāi with a 1st tone, then míng with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 开明 is written 開明. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type kaiming with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 开明 from the suggestions. Typing kaiming into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
开明 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.