HSK 3 · Movement & Direction

推开

tuī kāi

to push open

Stroke order of 推开

2 characters, 15 strokes in total. Watch the animation, then try writing it yourself.

推 · 11 strokes 开 · 4 strokes

Memory trick

The hand radical 扌 shoves a bird (隹) to make it flee, then 开 swings the door open.

Parts: 推: 扌 hand + 隹 bird (push); 开: open

The characters in 推开

推 tuī — to push (11 strokes)
开 kāi — to open; to drive (4 strokes)

Example sentence

他推开门，走进了房间。

He pushed the door open and walked into the room.

Words with 推

推to push 推动to push; to promote 推广to spread; to popularize 推进to push forward

Words with 开

开会to have a meeting 开车to drive 开to open; to drive 打开to open; to turn on 开玩笑to joke 开学school starts 开机to turn on (a device)开心happy 离开to leave 走开to go away 分开to separate 开业to open for business 公开open; to make public 开始to start; beginning 开发to develop 开放to open; open 开展to carry out; to launch 展开to unfold; to launch

More words: Movement & Direction

上来to come up 上去to go up 下来to come down 下去to go down; to go on 传来to come through (of sound or news)放到to put into 前进to go forward; to advance 退to retreat; to return (sth)退出to withdraw; to quit 追to chase 随to follow 转to turn; to transfer 跳to jump 按to press; according to

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