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開く

Meanings, readings, and example sentences for the Japanese word 開く.

Dictionary

Entry

開くヒラくGodan verbFreq #255
1

Intransitive verb; Transitive verb

to open; to undo; to unseal; to unpack

Examples
先週、私達は舞踏会を開きました
We gave a ball last week.
2

Intransitive verb; Transitive verb

to bloom; to unfold; to spread out

Examples
庭のバラの木のつぼみが少しずつ開き始める。
Little by little, the buds on the rosebush in my garden begin to open.
3

Intransitive verb; Transitive verb

to open (for business, e.g. in the morning)

4

Intransitive verb; Transitive verb

to be wide (gap, etc.); to widen

5

Transitive verb

to hold (meeting, party, etc.); to give; to open

6

Transitive verb

to found (nation, dynasty, sect, etc.); to open (a new business); to set up; to establish; to start

7

Transitive verb

to open (ports, borders, etc.)

8

Transitive verb

to open (an account)

9

Transitive verb

to open up (new land, path, etc.); to clear; to develop

10

Transitive verb; Computing

to open (a file, etc.)

11

Transitive verb; Mathematics

to extract (root); to reduce (equation)

12

Transitive verb; Food, cooking; As 魚を開く

to cut open (fish)

13

Transitive verb

to change (kanji into hiragana)

14

Intransitive verb

to flare (e.g. skirt)

15

Intransitive verb; Sports; As 体が開く, 肩が開く, etc.

to slacken (into a poor posture)

16

Word usually written using kana alone; Intransitive verb; Go (game); Usu. ヒラく

to extend

Character notes

Kanji in this Word

open, unfold, unseal

12 strokesFrequency 59JLPT N3Grade 3

On

カイ

Kun

ひら.くひら.き-びら.きひら.けるあ.くあ.ける

Nanori

はるひらき

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