to season a new teapot before first use; (sports, curling) to throw the first stone; to begin play
trad. 開壺
Also written 開壺【kāi hú】
Characters in this word
2开
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
to open (transitive or intransitive), (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start, to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run, to boil, to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc), (directional complement) away; off, carat (gold), abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1 er3 wen2], abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1 ben3], book format
- Pinyin
- kāi
- Traditional
- 開
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 467 of 2500
壶
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
pot, classifier for bottled liquid
- Pinyin
- hú
- Traditional
- 壺
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 22044 of 2500