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坤

kūn

earth; feminine

🔤 Pictophonetic: 申 (earth) provides meaning, 土 provides pronunciation
HSK 8 strokes Common (29%)
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Component Breakdown

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土
tǔ
soil, earth; items made of earth
申
shēn
to report; to extend; to explain; to declare
⿰土申 i

Stroke Order

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Component Tree i

tǔ
土
soil, earth; items made of earth
📷 Pictographic: A lump of clay on a potter's wheel
3 strokes HSK 5
shēn
申
to report; to extend; to explain; to declare
📷 Pictographic: A bolt of lightning
5 strokes HSK 4

Words Using 坤 (8)

kūn
坤 ↗
one of the Eight Trigrams [[八卦<bāguà>]], symbolizing earth / female principle / [[☷]]
qiánkūn
乾坤 ↗
Heaven and earth / Yin and Yang / The Universe
Bālǐkūn
巴里坤 ↗
Barkol Kazakh autonomous county or Barköl Qazaq aptonom nahiyisi in Kumul prefecture [[哈密地區|哈密地区<Hāmìdìqū>]], Xinjiang
BālǐkūnHāsàkèzìzhìxiàn
巴里坤哈萨克自治县 ↗
Barkol Kazakh autonomous county or Barköl Qazaq aptonom nahiyisi in Kumul prefecture [[哈密地區|哈密地区<Hāmìdìqū>]], Xinjiang
Bālǐkūnxiàn
巴里坤县 ↗
Barkol Kazakh autonomous county or Barköl Qazaq aptonom nahiyisi in Kumul prefecture [[哈密地區|哈密地区<Hāmìdìqū>]], Xinjiang
Bālǐkūncǎoyuán
巴里坤草原 ↗
Barkol grasslands near Hami in Xinjiang
Kūndiàn
坤甸 ↗
Pontianak city, capital of Kalimantan, Indonesia
xuánqiánzhuǎnkūn
旋乾转坤 ↗
lit. overturning heaven and earth (idiom); earth-shattering / a radical change