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坤
kūn
1. one of the Eight Trigrams [[八卦<bāguà>]], symbolizing earth
2. female principle
3. [[☷]]
Very Common • Top 6% ✏️ 8 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

坤
kūn
earth; feminine
8 丶

Compound Words (7)

乾坤
qiánkūn
Heaven and earth
坤甸
Kūndiàn
Pontianak city, capital of Kalimantan, Indonesia
巴里坤
Bālǐkūn
Barkol Kazakh autonomous county or Barköl Qazaq aptonom nahiyisi in Kumul prefecture [[哈密地區|哈密地区<Hāmìdìqū>]], Xinjiang
巴里坤县
Bālǐkūnxiàn
Barkol Kazakh autonomous county or Barköl Qazaq aptonom nahiyisi in Kumul prefecture [[哈密地區|哈密地区<Hāmìdìqū>]], Xinjiang
旋乾转坤
xuánqiánzhuǎnkūn
lit. overturning heaven and earth (idiom); earth-shattering
巴里坤草原
Bālǐkūncǎoyuán
Barkol grasslands near Hami in Xinjiang
巴里坤哈萨克自治县
BālǐkūnHāsàkèzìzhìxiàn
Barkol Kazakh autonomous county or Barköl Qazaq aptonom nahiyisi in Kumul prefecture [[哈密地區|哈密地区<Hāmìdìqū>]], Xinjiang

Alternate Entries

坤
kūn
variant of [[坤<kūn>]]

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Category
Chinese
Character Frequency Rank
2,909
Word Frequency Rank
4,772 of 84,292

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