開宗明義 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 开宗明义 kāizōngmíngyì ㄎㄞ ㄗㄨㄥ ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄧˋ to declare at the outset (idiom) Character by character 開(kāi)open 宗(zōng)surname Zong 明(míng)Ming Dynasty 義(yì)surname Yi A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0