kǎn

hole; pit; threshold

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Character data

HSK Not in HSK
Frequency 2446th character
Radical ⼟ (32.4)
Strokes 7
Index # 639

Definitions

坎 kǎn
  1. 1. hole
  2. 2. pit
  3. 3. threshold
  4. 4. one of the Eight Trigrams bā guà, symbolizing water
  5. 5.

Stroke order

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Words containing 坎

Word Meaning
Buchanan (surname)
Campbell (name)
rough (of life); to be down on one's luck
Kandahar (town in Southern Afghanistan)
Canterbury
key moment; critical juncture
Chinese waistcoat; sleeveless jacket (usually cotton)
Kampala, capital of Uganda
bumpy; full of hardship and setbacks
bottom of one's heart
Alicante
to have a tough life; to meet much adversity in one's life
earthen levee
erhua variant of tǔ kǎn
erhua variant of tǔ kǎn
key moment; critical juncture
underground water channel in Xinjiang
karez; underground water tunnel for farming
(dialect) just now
full of hardship and bad luck in life
Cannes, France (Tw)
Canberra, capital of Australia (Tw)
Cantabria in north Spain
Cantabria in north Spain
Cantabrian Mountains in north Spain
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