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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

揭开

jiēkāi

to uncover

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to uncover

02

to open

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 揭开 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 揭开 appears in 7 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

谁能揭开海洋的奥秘?shuí néng jiē kāi hǎi yáng de ào mì?

Who shall ever unravel the mysteries of the sea?

萨米已经快要揭开谜底了。sà mǐ yǐ jīng kuài yào jiē kāi mí dǐ le。

Sami is getting close to solving this mystery.

他几乎从来没揭开过一本书。tā jī hū cóng lái méi jiē kāi guò yī běn shū。

He hardly ever opens a book.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 揭开.

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

Directly before

  • 没揭开1
  • 来揭开1
  • 是揭开1
  • 能揭开1
  • 谜题揭开1

Directly after

  • 揭开过1
  • 揭开英文1
  • 揭开谜团1
  • 揭开海洋1
  • 揭开了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 揭开

What does 揭开 mean in Chinese?

揭开 (jiēkāi) means to uncover.

How do you pronounce 揭开?

揭开 is pronounced jiēkāi.

Is 揭开 an HSK word?

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

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