Keyword
pit
- hole
- to trap
- to snare
- crisis
- Frequency
- #2611
- Strokes
- 7
Readings
kǎn
Mnemonic
土 (earth) gives the meaning and 欠 the sound.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in characters
Used in vocabulary
坎
pit; threshold; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦 (bāguà), symbolizing water; ☵; hole
坎坷
(of a road) bumpy; (of life) rough; to be down on one's luck; to be full of frustrations and dashed hopes
坎贝尔
Campbell (name)
布坎南
(surname) Buchanan
坎城
(Tw) Cannes, France
坎培拉
Canberra, capital of Australia (Tw)
心坎
bottom of one's heart
坎大哈
Kandahar (town in Southern Afghanistan)
坎特伯雷
Canterbury
坎帕拉
Kampala, capital of Uganda
坎昆
Cancún
坎德拉
candela (unit of luminosity); standard candle
坎肩
sleeveless jacket (usually cotton); Chinese waistcoat
坎儿
critical juncture; key moment
土坎
earthen levee
坎儿井
karez, qanat or "horizontal well" (irrigation and water management system used in Xinjiang, Central Asia and Middle East)
赤坎区
Chikan, a district of Zhanjiang City 湛江市 (ZhànjiāngShì), Guangdong
坎坷不平
potholed and bumpy road (idiom); fig. full of disappointment and dashed hopes
坎子
raised ground; bank