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开拓

kāi tuò

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 開拓

开拓 (kāi tuò) means "to break new ground (for agriculture); to open up (a new seam); to develop (border regions)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 开拓 means

1. to break new ground (for agriculture)
2. to open up (a new seam)
3. to develop (border regions)
4. fig. to open up (new horizons)

The characters in 开拓

• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start…
• 拓tuòto expand; to push sth with the hand; to develop

Example sentences

• 年轻的时候你应该开拓你的思想。
  Niánqīng de shíhou nǐ yīnggāi kāituò nǐ de sīxiǎng.
  You should enrich your mind when young.

Words starting with 开拓

• 开拓者kāi tuò zhěpioneer
• 开拓性kāi tuò xìngpioneering; groundbreaking

Where 开拓 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jūn–kǎ (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read kāi tuò correctly.
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