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开幕式

kāi mù shì

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 3-character word Traditional 開幕式

开幕式 (kāi mù shì) means "opening ceremony". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 开幕式 means

1. opening ceremony

The characters in 开幕式

• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start…
• 幕mùcurtain or screen; canopy or tent; headquarters of a general
• 式shìtype; form; pattern

Example sentences

• 昨天举办了开幕式。
  Zuótiān jǔbàn le kāimùshì.
  The opening ceremony took place yesterday.
• 我错过了奥运会的开幕式。
  Wǒ cuòguò le àoyùnhuì de kāimùshì.
  I missed the opening ceremony of the Olympics.

Where 开幕式 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Travel, Events & Social Venues (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 kāi mù shì correctly.
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