坎 kǎn

pit, hole; snare, trap; crisis

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DEFINITIONS

坎 kǎn
  • pit
  • threshold
  • one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing water
  • ☵
  • old variant of 坎[kan3]
  • hole

STROKES

WORDS

布坎南 bù kǎn nán Buchanan (surname)
坎贝尔 kǎn bèi ěr Campbell (name)
坎坷 kǎn kě bumpy (of a road); rough (of life); to be down on one's luck; to be full of frustrations and dashed hopes
坎大哈 kǎn dà hā Kandahar (town in Southern Afghanistan)
坎特伯雷 kǎn tè bó léi Canterbury
坎儿 kǎn r critical juncture; key moment
坎肩 kǎn jiān sleeveless jacket (usually cotton); Chinese waistcoat
坎帕拉 kǎn pà lā Kampala, capital of Uganda
坎坷不平 kǎn kě bù píng potholed and bumpy road (idiom); fig. full of disappointment and dashed hopes
心坎 xīn kǎn bottom of one's heart
阿利坎特 ā lì kǎn tè Alicante
命途坎坷 mìng tú kǎn kě to have a tough life; to meet much adversity in one's life
土坎 tǔ kǎn earthen levee
土坎儿 tǔ kǎn r erhua variant of 土坎[tu3 kan3]
土坎兒 tǔ kǎn r erhua variant of 土坎[tu3 kan3]
坎兒 kǎn r critical juncture; key moment
坎儿井 kǎn r jǐng karez, qanat or "horizontal well" (irrigation and water management system used in Xinjiang, Central Asia and Middle East)
坎兒井 kǎn r jǐng karez, qanat or "horizontal well" (irrigation and water management system used in Xinjiang, Central Asia and Middle East)
坎坎 kǎn kǎn (dialect) just now
坎坷多舛 kǎn kě duō chuǎn full of trouble and misfortune (usu. referring to someone's life)
坎城 kǎn chéng Cannes, France (Tw)
坎培拉 kǎn péi lā Canberra, capital of Australia (Tw)
坎塔布连 kǎn tǎ bù lián Cantabria in north Spain
坎塔布連 kǎn tǎ bù lián Cantabria in north Spain
坎塔布连山脉 kǎn tǎ bù lián shān mài Cantabrian mountain range in north Spain dividing Asturias from Castilla-Leon
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