He pulled open the door.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
拉开
to pull open
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to pull open
02
to pull apart
03
to space out
04
to increase
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 拉开 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 拉开 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
He zipped open his bag.
He unzipped his pants.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 拉开.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 拉开.
Directly before
- 他拉开3
- 我拉开1
- 窗帘拉开1
Directly after
- 拉开了3
- 拉开裤子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 拉开
What does 拉开 mean in Chinese?
拉开 (lākāi) means to pull open.
How do you pronounce 拉开?
拉开 is pronounced lākāi.
Is 拉开 an HSK word?
拉开 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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