HSK 6 · Nature

开采 kāicǎi “to mine” in Chinese

Traditional 開採

What 开采 means

  1. to mine
  2. to extract (minerals)
  3. to extract (ore or other resource from a mine)
  4. to exploit

How to say 开采

  • 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 third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale采cǎi3rd tone, dipping

开采 in a sentence

  1. 这座山里开采出了很多煤。

    Zhè zuò shān lǐ kāicǎi chū le hěn duō méi.

    A lot of coal has been mined from this mountain.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 这里的石油还没有开采。

    Zhèlǐ de shíyóu hái méiyǒu kāicǎi.

    The oil here hasn’t been extracted yet.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 开采 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 采 (cǎi) with each of its parts in a different colour
采cǎito pick
  • 爫claw form of 爪 · zhǎo
  • 木tree · mù

How to write 开采

开 4 strokes · 采 8 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 开采

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 采

采取cǎiqǔ · to adopt or carry out (measures采访cǎifǎng · to interview采纳cǎinà · to adopt采集cǎijí · to gather采购cǎigòu · to purchase (for an organisation)无精打采wújīngdǎcǎi · listless兴高采烈xìnggāocǎiliè · in high spirits

More words: Nature & Environment

火焰huǒyàn · flame湖泊húpō · lake呼啸hūxiào · to whistle茎jīng · stem砍伐kǎnfá · to fell (trees)矿产kuàngchǎn · mineral resources枯萎kūwěi · to wither茂盛màoshèng · lush

FAQs

开采 (kāicǎi) means “to mine” or “to extract (minerals)”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it kāicǎi: kāi with a 1st tone, then cǎi with a 3rd 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, 开采 is written 開採. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type kaicai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 开采 from the suggestions. Typing kaicai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
开采 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.