開ひらける

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

improve; look brighter; open up

Used figuratively of luck, prospects, a future path, or a difficult situation beginning to improve.

• 事じ業ぎょうは失しっ敗ぱい続つづきだったが、ようやく運うんが開ひらけてきた。

  The business had suffered one failure after another, but his luck has finally begun to turn.

• 新あたらしい仕し事ごとを得えて、将しょう来らいが開ひらけた。

  Getting a new job opened up his future prospects.

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

develop; modernize; advance

Used of towns, regions, civilizations, knowledge, or ideas developing from a less advanced or less connected state.

• 港みなとができてから、この町まちは大おおきく開ひらけた。

  After the port was built, this town developed greatly.

• 教きょう育いくが広ひろまり、人ひと々びとの考かんがえ方かたも少すこしずつ開ひらけていった。

  As education spread, people's way of thinking gradually became more advanced.

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

be sensible; be understanding; be enlightened

Often appears as 開けた人 or 開けた考え方, meaning open-minded, enlightened, or not bound by narrow old assumptions.

• 彼かの女じょは新あたらしい考かんがえにも理り解かいのある、開ひらけた人ひとだ。

  She is an open-minded person who understands new ideas.

• 祖そ父ふは年ねん配ぱいだが、考かんがえ方かたはとても開ひらけている。

  My grandfather is elderly, but his way of thinking is very enlightened.

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

open to traffic; become accessible

Used of a new road, railway, or route becoming usable. In modern everyday Japanese, 開通する is often the more explicit choice for official opening to traffic.

• この地ち方ほうに初はじめて鉄てつ道どうが開ひらけたのは明めい治じ時じ代だいだ。

  It was in the Meiji era that a railway first opened in this region.

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

become built-up; become populous; become bustling

Used of an area becoming more inhabited, built up, commercially active, or lively.

• この辺あたりも店みせやマンションが増ふえて、すっかり開ひらけた。

  This area has become completely built up, with more shops and apartment buildings.

• 昔むかしは畑はたけばかりだったが、駅えき前まえはずいぶん開ひらけた。

  It used to be nothing but fields, but the area in front of the station has become much more bustling.