開竅

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Chinese

open; operate (vehicle); start intelligence; opening
trad. (開竅)
simp. (开窍)

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Verb

開竅

  1. (traditional Chinese medicine) to open the body orifices
  2. (figurative) to be enlightened; to begin to understand
  3. (figurative, of a child) to begin to know things

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