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開刀

kāi dāo

B1 Level 5
Separable verb

開刀 (kāi dāo) is a Chinese word meaning “(of a surgeon) to perform an operation”. It sits at TOCFL Level 5 (CEFR B1) on Taiwan's official TBCL vocabulary standard.

Definition

  1. (of a surgeon) to perform an operation
  2. (of a patient) to have an operation
  3. to decapitate
  4. to behead
  5. to single out as a point of attack

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Example

他下星期要開刀。

He's having surgery next week.

Related words at this level

軍事卡開除開創開發開關開戶開幕式

Vocabulary & levels: TBCL / NAER. Parts of speech: TOCFL 8000-word list (SC-TOP). Definitions: CC-CEDICT & CFDICT (CC BY-SA). Stroke data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License).