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开门见山

kāi mén jiàn shān

4-character word Traditional 開門見山

What 开门见山 means

1. lit. to open the door and see the mountain; fig. to get right to the point (idiom)

The characters in 开门见山

• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start…
• 门méngate; door; doorway; gateway; opening; valve; switch…
• 见jiànto see; to meet; to appear (to be sth)
• 山shānmountain; hill; (colloquial) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on

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