HSK 6 · Adjectives

开阔 kāikuò “wide” in Chinese

Traditional 開闊

What 开阔 means

  1. wide
  2. open
  3. broad (mind or view)
  4. open (spaces)
  5. to open up

How to say 开阔

  • 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 fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale阔kuò4th tone, falling

开阔 in a sentence

  1. 站在山顶上，视野很开阔。

    Zhàn zài shāndǐng shàng, shìyě hěn kāikuò.

    Standing on the mountaintop, you get a wide view.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 旅行可以开阔眼界。

    Lǚxíng kěyǐ kāikuò yǎnjiè.

    Travel broadens your horizons.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 开阔 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 阔 (kuò) with each of its parts in a different colour
阔kuòrich
  • 门gate · ménMeaning part
  • 活to exist · huóSound part

门 hints at the meaning (gate); 活 (huó) hints at the sound. Compare it with kuò.

How to write 开阔

开 4 strokes · 阔 12 strokes

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

Words related to 开阔

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 阔

广阔guǎngkuò · vast辽阔liáokuò · vast

More words: Adjectives

机智jīzhì · quick-witted倔强juéjiàng · stubborn剧烈jùliè · violent举足轻重jǔzúqīngzhòng · to play a decisive role开朗kāilǎng · cheerful开明kāimíng · enlightened慷慨kāngkǎi · generous刻不容缓kèbùrónghuǎn · extremely urgent

FAQs

开阔 (kāikuò) means “wide” or “open”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it kāikuò: kāi with a 1st tone, then kuò with a 4th 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, 开阔 is written 開闊. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type kaikuo with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 开阔 from the suggestions. Typing kaikuo into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
开阔 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 written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.