拆

chāi

HSK 53 readings

“To tear open” in Chinese is 拆 (chāi).

Other characters with the syllable chai: see all 2 →

Meaning

to tear open
to tear down
to tear apart

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to open

Example

没有人会为这个旧建筑物的拆除而落泪。

Nobody's going to shed any tears if that old building gets torn down.

From 拆除 · Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Readings

chāito tear open / to tear down / to tear apart / to open
cāto excrete (archaic, variant of 擦)

Stroke Order

8 strokes

Words containing 拆

拆除chāichúto tear downHSK 5 拆迁chāiqiānto demolish a building and relocate the inhabitantsHSK 6

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