# 開 U+958B CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-958B

A Chinese character meaning “open; initiate, begin, start”, read kāi in Mandarin.

| | |
|---|---|
| Character | `開` |
| Codepoint | U+958B |
| Name | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-958B |
| Block | [CJK Unified Ideographs](https://unicodekit.com/block/cjk-unified-ideographs) |
| Script | Han |
| Category | Other Letter (Lo) |
| Unicode version | 1.1 |
| HTML | `開` `開` |
| CSS | `\958B` |
| JavaScript | `\u958B` |
| UTF-8 | E9 96 8B |
| UTF-16 | 958B |
| Definition | open; initiate, begin, start |
| Mandarin | kāi |
| Cantonese | hoi1 |
| Japanese | KAI HIRAKU AKU |
| Korean | KAY |

## Related characters

- 閊 [U+958A CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-958A](https://unicodekit.com/char/958A)
- 閌 [U+958C CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-958C](https://unicodekit.com/char/958C)
- 閉 [U+9589 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9589](https://unicodekit.com/char/9589)
- 閍 [U+958D CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-958D](https://unicodekit.com/char/958D)
- 閈 [U+9588 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9588](https://unicodekit.com/char/9588)
- 閎 [U+958E CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-958E](https://unicodekit.com/char/958E)
- 閇 [U+9587 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9587](https://unicodekit.com/char/9587)
- 閏 [U+958F CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-958F](https://unicodekit.com/char/958F)
- 閆 [U+9586 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9586](https://unicodekit.com/char/9586)
- 閐 [U+9590 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9590](https://unicodekit.com/char/9590)
- 閅 [U+9585 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9585](https://unicodekit.com/char/9585)
- 閑 [U+9591 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9591](https://unicodekit.com/char/9591)

Page: https://unicodekit.com/char/958B · JSON: https://unicodekit.com/characters/958B