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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

想开

xiǎngkāi

to get over (a shock, bereavement etc)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to get over (a shock, bereavement etc)

02

to avoid dwelling on unpleasant things

03

to accept the situation and move on

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 想开 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 想开 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我想开个储蓄帐户。wǒ xiǎng kāi gè chǔ xù zhàng hù。

I'd like to open a savings account.

我真的想开这个。wǒ zhēn de xiǎng kāi zhè ge。

No published English translation for this sentence.

你想开一家餐厅吗?nǐ xiǎng kāi yī jiā cān tīng ma?

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 想开.

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

Directly before

  • 我想开1
  • 真的想开1
  • 你想开1
  • 只是想开1

Directly after

  • 想开个2
  • 想开的话1
  • 想开这个1
  • 想开一家1
  • 想开一个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 想开

What does 想开 mean in Chinese?

想开 (xiǎngkāi) means to get over (a shock, bereavement etc).

How do you pronounce 想开?

想开 is pronounced xiǎngkāi.

Is 想开 an HSK word?

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

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