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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
开门见山
lit. to open the door and see the mountain; fig. to get right to the point (idiom)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
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lit. to open the door and see the mountain; fig. to get right to the point (idiom)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 开门见山 actually appears in real sentences.
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COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 开门见山.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 开门见山.
Directly before
- 我们开门见山4
- 就开门见山3
- 问得开门见山1
Directly after
- 开门见山吧2
- 开门见山的2
- 开门见山地2
- 开门见山直说1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 开门见山
What does 开门见山 mean in Chinese?
开门见山 (kāiménjiànshān) means lit. to open the door and see the mountain; fig. to get right to the point (idiom).
How do you pronounce 开门见山?
开门见山 is pronounced kāiménjiànshān.
Is 开门见山 an HSK word?
开门见山 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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