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开埠

kāi bù

2-character word Traditional 開埠

What 开埠 means

1. to open up a port for trade
2. to open treaty ports

The characters in 开埠

• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start…
• 埠bù(bound form) wharf; pier; port town; (Taiwan; computing; bound form) port

Example sentences

• 上海那么繁荣，主要是一百六十年前开埠以后发生的变化。
  Shànghǎi nàme fánróng, zhǔyào shì yī bǎi liùshí niánqián kāibù yǐhòu fāshēng de biànhuà.
  Shanghai is so prosperous; notably it was after the port was opened for trade one hundred and sixty years ago that things started to change.
• 上海那幺繁荣，主要是一百六十年前开埠以后发生的变化。
  Shanghai is so prosperous; notably it was after the port was opened for trade one hundred and sixty years ago that things started to change.

Sounds the same

Read kāi bù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 开步to step forward; to walk