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开朗

kāi lǎng

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

开朗 (kāi lǎng) means "spacious and well-lit; open and clear; (of character) optimistic". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 开朗 means

1. spacious and well-lit
2. open and clear
3. (of character) optimistic
4. cheerful
5. carefree

The characters in 开朗

• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start…
• 朗lǎngclear; bright

Example sentences

• 她开朗的个性使我觉得快乐。
  Tā kāilǎng de gèxìng shǐ wǒ juéde kuàilè.
  I get a kick out of her cheerful personality.
• 她的脸上总是挂着开朗的微笑。
  Tā de liǎn shàng zǒngshì guà zhe kāilǎng de wēixiào.
  She is always bright and smiling.
• 郁婷跟男朋友分手后，整个人变开朗了。
  Yu-ting's so much brighter after breaking up with her boyfriend.

Words containing 开朗

• 豁然开朗huò rán kāi lǎngsuddenly opens up to a wide panorama (idiom); to come to a wide clearing…
• 米开朗基罗Mǐ kāi lǎng jī luóMichelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), Renaissance painter and sculptor

Where 开朗 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 lǎng correctly.
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