HSK 6 · Verbs

开辟 kāipì “to open up” in Chinese

Traditional 開闢

What 开辟 means

  1. to open up
  2. to start
  3. to pioneer
  4. to create
  5. to establish

How to say 开辟

  • 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辟pì4th tone, falling

开辟 in a sentence

  1. 开辟新天地。

    Kāipì xīn tiāndì.

    Break new ground.

    Sentence #13206628 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 开辟 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 辟 (pì) with each of its parts in a different colour
辟pìpenal law
  • 尸corpse · shī
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 辛bitter · xīn

How to write 开辟

开 4 strokes · 辟 13 strokes

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

Words related to 开辟

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

给予jǐyǔ · to give卷juǎn · to roll up鞠躬jūgōng · to bow居住jūzhù · to live (in a place)开拓kāituò · to open up开展kāizhǎn · to launch扛káng · to carry on one’s shoulder考察kǎochá · to investigate

FAQs

开辟 (kāipì) means “to open up” or “to start”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it kāipì: kāi with a 1st tone, then pì 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, 开辟 is written 開闢. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type kaipi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 开辟 from the suggestions. Typing kaipi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
开辟 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.