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Kanji for Open
The kanji for “open” is 開, read kai and written in 12 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
開
open
To open; opening new doors and new possibilities.
12 strokes On reading カイ (kai) Kun reading ひらく、ひらき、びらき (hiraku, hiraki, biraki) JLPT N3
Dictionary meanings: open, unfold, unseal
Readings used for names on Nazuke: aku, kai, haru
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