開墾 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 开垦 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. kāikěn ㄎㄞ ㄎㄣˇ to clear a wild area for cultivation to put under the plow Character by character 開(kāi)open 墾(kěn)reclaim A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT