別開生面 Save Create a free account to save words Simplified: 别开生面 biékāishēngmiàn ㄅㄧㄝˊ ㄎㄞ ㄕㄥ ㄇㄧㄢˋ 男 女 to start sth new or original (idiom) to break a new path to break fresh ground Character by character 別(bié)leave 開(kāi)(of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start 生(shēng)grow 面(miàn)face Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0