kǎn

pit

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
土 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

earth

欠 sound component

  Sound component

qiàn

  

yawn, deficient

Evolution

坎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
坎 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

kǎn

pit, hole; snare, trap; crisis; pit; threshold; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[bā​guà], symbolizing water; ☵

() 

kǎn

old variant of [kǎn]; hole

Most common words with 坎
Freq.
Word
Meaning

pit

坎坷

bumpy (of a road)

布坎南

Buchanan (surname)

坎贝尔

Campbell (name)

心坎

bottom of one's heart

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ʰˤomʔ

khomX

kǎn

pit (n.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.9335% of movies

2053rd most common character in movies

2446th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+574E

Shuowen

“坎,陷也。从土,欠聲。”


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