HSK 6 · Adjectives

开朗 kāilǎng “cheerful” in Chinese

Traditional 開朗

What 开朗 means

  1. cheerful
  2. outgoing
  3. optimistic
  4. spacious and well-lit
  5. open and clear
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • (of character) optimistic
  • carefree

How to say 开朗

  • 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朗lǎng3rd tone, dipping

开朗 in a sentence

  1. 郁婷跟男朋友分手后，整个人变开朗了。

    Yùtíng gēn nánpéngyou fēnshǒu hòu, zhěnggè rén biàn kāilǎng le.

    Since breaking up with her boyfriend, Yuting has become much more cheerful.

    Sentence #13523790 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 开朗 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 朗 (lǎng) with each of its parts in a different colour
朗lǎngclear
  • 良good · liángSound part
  • 月moon · yuèMeaning part

月 hints at the meaning (moon); 良 (liáng) hints at the sound. Compare it with lǎng.

How to write 开朗

开 4 strokes · 朗 10 strokes

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

Words related to 开朗

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 朗

朗读lǎngdú · to read aloud晴朗qínglǎng · sunny

More words: Adjectives

倔强juéjiàng · stubborn剧烈jùliè · violent举足轻重jǔzúqīngzhòng · to play a decisive role开阔kāikuò · wide开明kāimíng · enlightened慷慨kāngkǎi · generous刻不容缓kèbùrónghuǎn · extremely urgent可观kěguān · considerable

FAQs

开朗 (kāilǎng) means “cheerful” or “outgoing”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it kāilǎng: kāi with a 1st tone, then lǎng 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, 开朗 is written 開朗. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type kailang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 开朗 from the suggestions. Typing kailang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
开朗 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.