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开机

kāi jī

HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word Traditional 開機

开机 (kāi jī) means "to power on, switch on". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 开机 means

1. to start an engine
2. to boot up (a computer)
3. to press Ctrl-Alt-Delete
4. to begin shooting a film or TV show

The characters in 开机

• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start…
• 机jī(bound form) machine; mechanism; (bound form) aircraft; (bound form) an opportunity

Words containing 开机

• 重新开机chóng xīn kāi jīto restart; to reboot

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