敞开
chǎng kāi · HSK 7
to open wide
🚪🌬️ chǎng sounds like CHANT + kāi sounds like KAI (open) — chant the door open wide
敞 (chǎng) means spacious or open, 开 (kāi) means to open. Together they mean to fling open without restriction. Think of chanting a command that swings every door wide.
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'.