Illustration: At the entrance to a neighborhood supermarket, automatic glass doors are sliding apart as a shopper approaches with a wheeled basket. The shopper's hands remain on the basket handle, clearly away from the doors.

JLPT N5verbLevel estimated by Bebop

開あく

aku

to open

開く can also be read ひらく. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

ドアが開あいた。
The door opened.
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戸とが風かぜで開あいた。
The door blew open.
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校門こうもんは8時じに開あく。
The gates of the school open at eight.
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Kanji in 開

開open; unfoldOnカイKunひらく・ひらき・あく

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