kǎi

open

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ
ŋ̊ʰɯːls

說文解字

開也。从門豈聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

kǎi open Simplified

No origin information available for this character yet.

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode