开撕

開撕

kāisī

verb

Meanings

1 to start tearing into each other (openly feud)
2 to begin a public fight / call-out

Characters

Examples

HSK 5

两位明星在微博上开撕。

Liǎng wèi míngxīng zài Wēibó shàng kāisī.

The two celebrities started a public feud on Weibo.

HSK 5

甲方和乙方直接开撕了。

Jiǎfāng hé yǐfāng zhíjiē kāisī le.

Client and vendor went straight into a war of words.

Tips

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Internet-era slang. 撕 literally means tear - extended to tearing each other apart verbally. The full form 撕逼 is cruder; 开撕 is the work-safe variant.

Stroke Order

开 kāi

撕 sī