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坎
埳
kǎn
1. old variant of [[坎<kǎn>]]
2. pit
3. hole
Very Common • Top 4% ✏️ 7 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

坎
kǎn
pit, hole; to trap, to snare; crisis
7 丶

Compound Words (20)

土坎
tǔkǎn
earthen levee
坎儿
kǎnr
critical juncture
坎坎
kǎnkǎn
(dialect) just now
坎坷
kǎnkě
bumpy (of a road)
坎壈
kǎnlǎn
to meet with misfortune
坎子
kǎnzi
raised ground
坎昆
Kǎnkūn
Cancún
坎肩
kǎnjiān
sleeveless jacket (usually cotton)
坑坎
kēngkǎn
uneven (road)
尤坎
Yóukǎn
Rjukan (city in Norway)
心坎
xīnkǎn
bottom of one's heart
赤坎
Chìkǎn
Chikan district of Zhanjiang city [[湛江市<Zhànjiāngshì>]], Guangdong
门坎
ménkǎn
variant of [[門檻|门槛<ménkǎn>]]
土坎儿
tǔkǎnr
erhua variant of [[土坎<tǔkǎn>]]
坎儿井
kǎnrjǐng
karez, qanat or "horizontal well" (irrigation and water management system used in Xinjiang, Central Asia and Middle East)
坎培拉
Kǎnpéilā
Canberra, capital of Australia (Tw)
坎大哈
Kǎndàhā
Kandahar (town in Southern Afghanistan)
坎帕拉
Kǎnpàlā
Kampala, capital of Uganda
坎德拉
kǎndélā
candela (unit of luminosity)
坎肩儿
kǎnjiānr
erhua variant of [[坎肩<kǎnjiān>]]

Alternate Entries

坎
kǎn
pit / threshold / one of the Eight Trigrams [[八卦<bāguà>]], symbolizing water / [[☵]]

Metadata

Category
Chinese
Character Frequency Rank
2,445
Word Frequency Rank
3,164 of 84,292