坎
Ancient forms
1 form- Small sealQin–Han
- 坎RegularToday
Glyphs: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Meaning
kǎn kan3
- pit
- threshold
- one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦 bā guà, symbolizing water
- ☵
kǎn kan3
- pit
- hole
Example sentences
- I can't get over it.
Words with 坎
- 坎子kǎnziraised ground
- 心坎xīnkǎnbottom of one's heart
- 坎儿kǎnrcritical juncture
- 土坎tǔkǎnearthen levee
- 坑坎kēngkǎnuneven (road)
- 坎肩kǎnjiānsleeveless jacket (usually cotton)
- 坎坷kǎnkě(of a road) bumpy; (of life) rough; to be down on one's luck; to be full of frustrations and dashed hopes
- 坎炁kǎnqì(TCM) umbilical cord (used as medicine)
- 坎坎kǎnkǎn(dialect) just now
- 坎德拉kǎndélācandela (unit of luminosity)
- 门坎儿ménkǎnrerhua variant of 门坎 (mén kǎn)
- 土坎儿tǔkǎnrerhua variant of 土坎 (tǔ kǎn)