HSK 6 · Verbs

敞开 chǎngkāi “to open wide” in Chinese

Traditional 敞開

What 敞开 means

  1. to open wide
  2. unrestricted
  3. unrestrictedly

How to say 敞开

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale敞chǎng3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale开kāi1st tone, high and level

敞开 in a sentence

  1. 我只是想敞开心扉。

    Wǒ zhǐshì xiǎng chǎngkāi xīnfēi.

    I just want to open up.

    Sentence #9958629 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 敞开你的心扉。

    Chǎngkāi nǐ de xīnfēi.

    Open your heart.

    Sentence #919632 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 敞开 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 敞 (chǎng) with each of its parts in a different colour
敞chǎngopen to the view of all
  • 尚still · shàngSound part
  • 攵tap form of 攴 · pūMeaning part

攵 hints at the meaning (tap); 尚 (shàng) hints at the sound. Compare it with chǎng.

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.

How to write 敞开

敞 12 strokes · 开 4 strokes

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

Words related to 敞开

Words with 敞

宽敞kuānchang · spacious

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)

More words: Common Verbs

操练cāoliàn · to drill操纵cāozòng · to control搀chān · to support by the arm颤抖chàndǒu · to tremble尝试chángshì · to try缠绕chánrào · to wind around超越chāoyuè · to surpass呈现chéngxiàn · to appear

FAQs

敞开 (chǎngkāi) means “to open wide” or “unrestricted”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it chǎngkāi: chǎng with a 3rd tone, then kāi with a 1st 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, 敞开 is written 敞開. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type changkai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 敞开 from the suggestions. Typing changkai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
敞开 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.