开放 開放 kāi fàng to bloom / to open / to be open (to the public) / to open up (to the outside) / to be open-minded / unrestrained by convention / unconstrained in one's sexuality syn 开后门 開後門 kāi hòu mén to open the back door / fig. under the counter / to do a secret or dishonest deal / to let sth in by the back door syn 开门 開門 kāi mén to open a door (lit. and fig.) / to open for business 敲开 敲開 qiāo kāi to get sth open by tapping or striking it / (figuratively, when followed by sth like ∼的大門|∼的大门[xx5 de5 da4 men2]) to open the door to ~ / to gain access to ~ syn 辟 闢 pì to open (a door) / to open up (for development) / to dispel / to refute / to repudiate / (bound form) penetrating / incisive syn 开业 開業 kāi yè to open a business / to open a practice / open (for business) syn 公开赛 公開賽 gōng kāi sài (sports) open championship / open (as in "the US Open") 撑开 撐開 chēng kāi to stretch taut / to open (an umbrella) / to hold (a bag etc) open / to prop open 入门 入門 rù mén entrance door / to enter a door / to learn the basics of a subject / introduction (to a subject) / (attributive) entry-level 车门 車門 chē mén car door / door of bus, railway carriage etc 关门 關門 guān mén to close a door / to lock a door / (of a shop etc) to close (for the night, or permanently) syn 后门 後門 hòu mén back door / back gate / (fig.) back-door influence / under-the-table dealings / anus / (computing) backdoor syn 前门 前門 qián mén front door / main entrance / honest and upright approach (as opposed to 後門|后门, back-door or under the counter) 门把 門把 mén bǎ door knob / door handle / also pr. [men2 ba4] 卷帘门 捲帘門 juǎn lián mén roll-up door / roller shutter door 偏门 偏門 piān mén side door / doing things by the side door (i.e. dishonestly) 门闩 門閂 mén shuān horizontal bar to hold a door closed (made of wood or metal) / door bolt syn 门扇 門扇 mén shàn door / the opening panel of a door syn 边门 邊門 biān mén side door / wicket door syn 便门 便門 biàn mén side door / wicket door 掩 yǎn to cover up / to conceal / to close (a door, book etc) / (coll.) to get (one's fingers etc) caught when closing a door or lid / (literary) to launch a surprise attack syn 樘 táng pillar / door post / door or window frame / classifier for doors or windows syn 扃 jiōng (literary) to shut or bolt a door / door syn 楗 jiàn material (such as rocks, earth, bamboo etc) used to hastily repair a dike / (literary) door bar (vertical bar used to prevent the horizontal movement of a door bolt) 椳 wēi the pivots, at the top and bottom of a Chinese door, on which the door turns 吊门 吊門 diào mén an overhung door / a door that hinges upwards 挨门 挨門 āi mén from door to door, one by one 门到门 門到門 mén dào mén door to door 门边框 門邊框 mén biān kuàng door frame / door pillars 铁将军把门 鐵將軍把門 tiě jiāng jūn bǎ mén lit. General Iron is guarding the door (idiom) / fig. the door is padlocked — nobody inside 𠳐 bāng (onom.) bang (door slamming shut etc) / rat-a-tat (knocking on a door etc) 破门 破門 pò mén to burst or force open a door / to excommunicate sb (from the Roman Catholic Church) / to score a goal (in football, hockey etc) 开门见山 開門見山 kāi mén jiàn shān lit. to open the door and see the mountain / fig. to get right to the point (idiom) syn 开门揖盗 開門揖盜 kāi mén yī dào leaving the door open invites the thief (idiom) / to invite disaster by giving evildoers a free hand syn 半开门 半開門 bàn kāi mén half-open door / fig. prostitute 女工经济解放国际门户开放社 女工經濟解放國際門戶開放社 Open Door International for the Economic Emancipation of the Woman Worker 天安门开了 天安門開了 tiān ān mén kāi le pants fly is down / the barn door is open 虚掩 虛掩 xū yǎn to partially obscure / (of a door, gate or window) slightly open / ajar / not fully shut / unlocked / (of a jacket or shirt) unbuttoned syn 闭关政策 閉關政策 bì guān zhèng cè closed-door policy 开关 開關 kāi guān power switch / gas valve / to open the city (or frontier) gate / to open and close / to switch on and off syn 开拓 開拓 kāi tuò to break new ground (for agriculture) / to open up (a new seam) / to develop (border regions) / fig. to open up (new horizons) syn 开阔 開闊 kāi kuò wide / open (spaces) / to open up syn 掀开 掀開 xiān kāi to lift open / to tear open syn 开路 開路 kāi lù to open up a path / to make one's way through / to construct a road / (electricity) open circuit syn 开山 開山 kāi shān to cut into a mountain (to open a mine) / to open a monastery syn 海选 海選 hǎi xuǎn (in elections for village committees in the PRC since the 1990s) unrestricted nomination, a type of election where 1. everyone in the community is eligible to nominate somebody 2. voting is done by writing the name of one's nominee on the ballot, and 3. one's nominee can be anyone in the community (Nominees who receive the highest number of votes may be thereby elected or, more often, presented as the candidates in a further round of voting.) / (in other contexts) selection of the best contender in a process open to all comers / (in the entertainment industry) open audition 开裂 開裂 kāi liè to split open / to dehisce (of fruit or cotton bolls, to split open) syn 劈开 劈開 pī kāi to cleave / to split open / to spread open (fingers, legs) syn 撬开 撬開 qiào kāi to pry open / to lever open 开卷 開卷 kāi juàn to open a book / open-book (exam) syn 扒开 扒開 bā kāi to pry open or apart / to spread (sth) open with both hands syn 披 pī to drape over one's shoulders / to open / to unroll / to split open / to spread out syn 拆 chāi to tear open / to tear down / to tear apart / to open syn 敞 chǎng open to the view of all / spacious / to open wide / to disclose syn 撬 qiào to lift / to pry open / to lever open syn 凿空 鑿空 záo kōng to open an aperture / (extended meaning) to cut a way through / to open up a road syn 开埠 開埠 kāi bù to open up a port for trade / to open treaty ports 露天堆栈 露天堆棧 lù tiān duī zhàn open-air repository / open-air depot 马丁炉 馬丁爐 mǎ dīng lú Martin furnace / open hearth furnace / open hearth syn 露天爆燃 lù tiān bào rán Open Burning and Open Detonation 公开试验 公開試驗 gōng kāi shì yàn open-label study / non-masked trial / open trial 开放和有规则的贸易制度第9工作队 開放和有規則的貿易制度第9工作隊 Millennium Project Task Force 9 on Open, Rule-Based Trading Systems / Task Force 9 on Open, Rule-Based Trading Systems 开杯试验 開杯試驗 kāi bēi shì yàn open-cup test / Cleveland open-cup test 克利夫兰开杯试验 克利夫蘭開杯試驗 kè lì fú lán kāi bēi shì yàn open-cup test / Cleveland open-cup test 试行开放天空 試行開放天空 Open Skies trial / Open Skies trial flight 开放名单制 開放名單制 open list / open-list system 旷地 曠地 kuàng dì open space / open field 呆扳手 dāi bān shǒu open spanner / open end spanner / flat spanner 决策 決策 jué cè strategic decision / decision-making / policy decision / to determine policy syn 新政 xīn zhèng new policy / New Deal (Roosevelt's 1933 policy to deal with the Great Depression) syn 八字方针 八字方針 bā zì fāng zhēn a policy expressed as an eight-character slogan / (esp.) the eight-character slogan for the economic policy proposed by Li Fuchun 李富春[Li3 Fu4chun1] in 1961: 調整、鞏固、充實、提高|调整、巩固、充实、提高 "adjust, consolidate, enrich and improve" 善策 shàn cè wise policy / best policy 三光政策 sān guāng zhèng cè Three Alls Policy (kill all, burn all, loot all), Japanese policy in China during WWII 叁年期全面政策审查 三年期全面政策審查 triennial comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the United Nations system / triennial comprehensive policy review 联合国大学学术出版政策 聯合國大學學術出版政策 United Nations University Policy on Scholarly Publishing / policy on scholarly publishing 欧洲安全和防卫政策 歐洲安全和防衛政策 European Security and Defence Policy / Common European Security and Defence Policy 欧洲共同安全和防卫政策 歐洲共同安全和防衛政策 European Security and Defence Policy / Common European Security and Defence Policy 社会政策、卫生政策和死亡率前景讨论会 社會政策、衛生政策和死亡率前景討論會 Seminar on Social Policy, Health Policy and Mortality Prospects 大流行病高级应急政策小组 大流行病高級應急政策小組 Pandemic Senior Emergency Policy Team / Senior Emergency Policy Team 欧洲安全和防卫政策法治特派团 歐洲安全和防衛政策法治特派團 European Security and Defense Policy Rule of Law Mission / European Security and Defence Policy Mission / ESDP Mission 安全防卫团 安全防衛團 European Security and Defense Policy Rule of Law Mission / European Security and Defence Policy Mission / ESDP Mission 伤病员后送待运政策 傷病員後送待運政策 holding policy / evacuation policy 联合国全球政策模型 聯合國全球政策模型 United Nations Global Policy Model / Global Policy Model 走出 zǒu chū to leave (a room etc) / to go out through (a door etc) 上门 上門 shàng mén to drop in / to visit / to lock a door / (of a shop) to close / to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family syn 锁定 鎖定 suǒ dìng to lock (a door) / to close with a latch / to lock into place / a lock / a latch / to lock a computer file (to prevent it being overwritten) / to lock (denying access to a computer system or device or files, e.g. by password-protection) / to focus attention on / to target 大门 大門 dà mén entrance / door / gate / large and influential family 门户 門戶 mén hù door / strategic gateway / portal / faction / sect / family status / family / web portal / (old) brothel syn 门外 門外 mén wài outside the door 门前 門前 mén qián in front of the door 房门 房門 fáng mén door of a room 隔壁 gé bì next door / neighbor syn 进门 進門 jìn mén to enter a door / to go in / to learn the basics of a subject / to join one's husband's household upon marriage 家门 家門 jiā mén house door / family clan syn 关上 關上 guān shàng to close (a door) / to turn off (light, electrical equipment etc) syn 敲门 敲門 qiāo mén to knock on a door syn 摘下 zhāi xià to take off / to remove (one's hat, a door from its hinges etc) / to pick (a piece of fruit from a tree etc) / (sports) to pick off (a rebound etc) 临死 臨死 lín sǐ facing death / at death's door 门锁 門鎖 mén suǒ door lock 