Tom disassembled the clock.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
拆开
to dismantle
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to dismantle
02
to disassemble
03
to open up (sth sealed)
04
to unpick
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 拆开 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 拆开 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
I like to take things apart to see what makes them tick.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 拆开.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 拆开.
Directly before
- 东西拆开1
- 钟拆开1
- 地拆开1
Directly after
- 拆开了1
- 拆开生日礼物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 拆开
What does 拆开 mean in Chinese?
拆开 (chāikāi) means to dismantle.
How do you pronounce 拆开?
拆开 is pronounced chāikāi.
Is 拆开 an HSK word?
拆开 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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