开辟

kāi pì · HSK 7

to open up

🚪 开 open + 辟 open-up = open up new ground, establish, set up

开 — two hands 廾 + door 门 (open gate)
Originally written 開, showing two hands (廾) lifting the bar (一) off a gate (門) to open it. The simplified form 开 keeps the two-hands element and drops the gate. Core meaning 'to open' extended to 'start, operate, bloom'.

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