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开颜

kāi yán

2-character word Traditional 開顏

What 开颜 means

1. to smile
2. to beam

The characters in 开颜

• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start…
• 颜yáncolor; face; countenance

Sounds the same

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

• 开言to start to speak
• 开筵to host a banquet