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开销

kāi xiāo

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 開銷

开销 (kāi xiāo) means "to pay (expenses); expenses; (old) to dismiss (an employee)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 开销 means

1. to pay (expenses)
2. expenses
3. oldto dismiss (an employee)

The characters in 开销

• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start…
• 销xiāoto melt (metal); to cancel; to annul; to sell

Example sentences

• 我的车子的开销比你的要多。
  Wǒ de chēzi de kāixiāo bǐ nǐ de yào duō.
  My car cost more than yours did.

Sounds the same

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

• 开消variant of 开销

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read kāi xiāo correctly.
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