Pinyin: kāi

to open; to drive

Example sentence

他会开车。

Tā huì kāi chē.

He can drive a car.

What 开 means

(kāi) is a Chinese word meaning “to open; to drive”. It belongs to the Actions & Verbs topic and appears at HSK 1 (and again in HSK 4), so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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