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展开

zhǎn kāi

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 展開

展开 (zhǎn kāi) means "to unfold; to spread out; to launch (an activity)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 展开 means

1. to unfold; to spread out; to open up
2. to launch; to carry out

The characters in 展开

• 展zhǎnto spread out; to open up; to exhibit
• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start…

Example sentences

• 已展开调查。
  An investigation was launched.
• 我们分散开来并在树林中展开搜索。
  Wǒmen fēnsàn kāi lái bìng zài shùlín zhōng zhǎnkāi sōusuǒ.
  We spread out and began to search through the woods.
• 这场谈论即将对污染问题展开讨论。
  Zhè chǎng tánlùn jíjiāng duì wūrǎn wèntí zhǎnkāi tǎolùn.
  The talks will deal with the problem of pollution.
• 几天之内，德军便在波兰境内展开了大规模攻击。
  Within days, German forces fanned out across Poland.

Words starting with 展开

• 展开图zhǎn kāi túexpanded view

Words containing 展开

• 微扰展开wēi rǎo zhǎn kāiperturbative expansion (physics)

Where 展开 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Picking, Exhibitions & Registration (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhǎn kāi correctly.
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