kūn

earth

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

Components
申 meaning component

  Meaning component

shēn

  

to extend

土 sound component

  Sound component

  

earth

Evolution

坤 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
坤 Clerical script Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
坤 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

kūn

earth; feminine, female; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[bā​guà], symbolizing earth; female principle; ☷; ancient Chinese compass point: 225° (southwest)

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kūn

variant of [kūn]

Most common words with 坤
Freq.
Word
Meaning

乾坤

yin and yang

扭转乾坤

to turn things around

巴里坤

Barkol Kazakh autonomous county or Barköl Qazaq aptonom nahiyisi in Kumul prefecture 哈密地區|哈密地区[Hā​mì​dì​qū], Xinjiang

巴里坤县

Barkol Kazakh autonomous county or Barköl Qazaq aptonom nahiyisi in Kumul prefecture 哈密地區|哈密地区[Hā​mì​dì​qū], Xinjiang

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[kʰ]ˤu[n]

khwon

kūn

earth (trigram or hexagram)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.7528% of movies

2814th most common character in movies

2910th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5764

Shuowen

“坤,地也,《易》之卦也。从土,从申。土位在申。”


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