CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

敲开

qiāokāi

to get sth open by tapping or striking it

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

to get sth open by tapping or striking it

(figuratively, when followed by sth like ∼的大门) to open the door to ~

to gain access to ~

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 敲开 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 敲开 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

玛丽娅拿了一个鸡蛋，并将它在碗沿上敲开。mǎ lì yà ná le yí gè jī dàn， bìng jiāng tā zài wǎn yán shàng qiāo kāi。

Mary took an egg and cracked it open on the rim of the bowl.

竞选活动的声势也来自那些已不再年轻的人们，他们冒着严寒酷暑，敲开陌生人的家门进行竞选宣传；竞选声势也源自数百万的美国民众，他们充当志愿者和组织者，他们证明了在两百多年以后，民有、民治、民享的政府并未从地球上消失。这是你们的胜利。jìng xuǎn huó dòng de shēng shì yě lái zì nà xiē yǐ bù zài nián qīng de rén men， tā men mào zhe yán hán kù shǔ， qiāo kāi mò shēng rén de jiā mén jìn xíng jìng xuǎn xuān chuán； jìng xuǎn shēng shì yě yuán zì shù bǎi wàn de měi guó mín zhòng， tā men chōng dāng zhì yuàn zhě hé zǔ zhī zhě， tā men zhèng míng liǎo zài liǎng bǎi duō nián yǐ hòu， mín yǒu、 mín zhì、 mín xiǎng de zhèng fǔ bìng wèi cóng dì qiú shàng xiāo shī。 zhè shì nǐ men de shèng lì。

It drew strength from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on doors of perfect strangers, and from the millions of Americans who volunteered and organized and proved that more than two centuries later a government of the people, by the people, and for the people has not perished from the Earth.

玛丽娅拿了一个鸡蛋，并在碗沿上将它敲开。mǎ lì yà ná le yí gè jī dàn， bìng zài wǎn yán shàng jiàng tā qiāo kāi。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 敲开.

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

Directly before

沿上敲开1
它敲开1

Directly after

敲开陌生人1
敲开完全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 敲开

What does 敲开 mean in Chinese?

敲开 (qiāokāi) means to get sth open by tapping or striking it.

How do you pronounce 敲开?

敲开 is pronounced qiāokāi.

Is 敲开 an HSK word?

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

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