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开弓

kāi gōng

2-character word Traditional 開弓

What 开弓 means

1. to draw a bow; to pull back a bowstring

The characters in 开弓

• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start…
• 弓gōnga bow (weapon); to bend; to arch (one's back etc)

Words starting with 开弓

• 开弓不放箭kāi gōng bù fàng jiànlit. to draw the bow without shooting the arrow (idiom); fig. to bluff…
• 开弓没有回头箭kāi gōng méi yǒu huí tóu jiànlit. once you've shot the arrow, there's no getting it back (idiom)…

Words containing 开弓

• 左右开弓zuǒ yòu kāi gōnglit. to shoot from both sides (idiom); fig. to display ambidexterity…

Sounds the same

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

• 开工to begin work (of a factory or engineering operation); to start a construction job