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Definition(s) for: 开门见山

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
开门见山 kāi mén jiàn shān - lit. to open the door and see the mountain; fig. to get right to the point (idiom)

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 12,742 34,674 50,327

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
开 kāi- 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[Kai1er3wen2]
- abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1ben3], book format
门 mén- surname Men
门 mén- gate
- door
- CL:扇[shan4]
- gateway
- doorway
- CL:個|个[ge4]
- opening
- valve
- switch
- way to do something
- knack
- family
- house
- (religious) sect
- school (of thought)
- class
- category
- phylum or division (taxonomy)
- classifier for large guns
- classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology
- (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)
见 jiàn- to see
- to meet
- to appear (to be sth)
- to interview
- opinion
- view
见 xiàn- to appear
- also written 現|现[xian4]
山 shān- surname Shan
山 shān- mountain; hill (CL:座[zuo4])
- (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on

Other Words Containing 开门见山

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
开门见山 - - 12,742 34,674 50,327