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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

开门

kāimén

to open a door (lit. and fig.)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to open a door (lit. and fig.)

02

to open for business

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 开门 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 开门 appears in 48 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

什么时候开门?shén me shí hòu kāi mén?

What time does it open?

Bill,开门。Bill, kāi mén。

Bill, open the door.

这家店8点开门。zhè jiā diàn 8 diǎn kāi mén。

This store is opened at eight.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 开门.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 开门.

Directly before

  • 我开门4
  • 时候开门3
  • 不要开门3
  • 你开门2
  • 店开门2

Directly after

  • 开门的4
  • 开门吗4
  • 开门了3
  • 开门让2
  • 开门走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

What does 开门 mean in Chinese?

开门 (kāimén) means to open a door (lit. and fig.).

How do you pronounce 开门?

开门 is pronounced kāimén.

Is 开门 an HSK word?

开门 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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