HSK 5 · Verbs

开放 kāifàng “to open (to the public)” in Chinese

Traditional 開放

What 开放 means

  1. to open (to the public)
  2. to open up
  3. (of flowers) to bloom
  4. to bloom
  5. to open
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to be open (to the public)
  • to open up (to the outside)
  • to be open-minded
  • unrestrained by convention

How to say 开放

  • 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放fàng4th tone, falling

开放 in a sentence

  1. 展览现在已经开放。

    Zhǎnlǎn xiànzài yǐjīng kāifàng.

    The exhibition is now open.

    Sentence #1361952 from Tatoeba

  2. 泳池是对公众开放的。

    Yǒngchí shì duì gōngzhòng kāifàng de.

    The swimming pool is open to the public.

    Sentence #353220 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 华盛顿的樱花现在开放。

    Huáshèngdùn de yīnghuā xiànzài kāifàng.

    The cherry blossoms in Washington are now in bloom.

    Sentence #1397029 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 开放 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 放 (fàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
放fàngto put
  • 方square · fāngSound part
  • 攵tap form of 攴 · pūMeaning part

攵 hints at the meaning (tap); 方 (fāng) hints at the sound. Compare it with fàng.

How to write 开放

开 4 strokes · 放 8 strokes

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

Words related to 开放

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 放

放fàng · put放心fàngxīn · relax放假fàngjià · to have a holiday放学fàngxué · to finish school (for the day)放松fàngsōng · to relax放弃fàngqì · to renounce放暑假fàngshǔjià · to be on summer holidays播放bōfàng · to broadcast放大fàngdà · to enlarge解放jiěfàng · to liberate

More words: Common Verbs

进步jìnbù · progress救jiù · to rescue具备jùbèi · to possess捐juān · to donate砍kǎn · to chop克kè · gram克服kèfú · to overcome (difficulties)控制kòngzhì · to control

FAQs

开放 (kāifàng) means “to open (to the public)” or “to open up”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it kāifàng: kāi with a 1st tone, then fàng 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, 开放 is written 開放. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type kaifang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 开放 from the suggestions. Typing kaifang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
开放 is an HSK 5 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.