坎
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pit; threshold; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing water; ☵
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How 坎 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
土 (semantic, “earth”) + 欠 (phonetic, qiàn)
How to remember it
hump · Heisig RSH #1717
土 soil + yawn
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 欠
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 欠 (qiàn) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 欠 sound component | qiàn | to lack, to owe; to breathe, to yawn |
| 软 | ruǎn | soft, pliable, flexible; weak |
| 吹 | chuī | to blow, to puff; to brag, to boast |
| 饮 | yǐn | to swallow, to drink; a kind of drink |
| 钦 | qīn | to respect, to admire; royal |
| 砍 | kǎn | to hack, to chop, to cut, to fell |
| 炊 | chuī | meal; to cook, to steam |
| 嵌 | qiàn | valley, ravine; to fall into; to inlay, to set in |
| 芡 | qiàn | Gorgon plant, fox nut |
| 欿 | kǎn | sad, gloomy, discontent |
| 肷 | qiǎn | the area between the waist and hips |
Words containing 坎
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 阿尔坎塔拉 | Ā ěr kǎn tǎ lā | Alcántara, municipality in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain; Alcantara, Brazil … |
| 坎塔布里亚 | Kǎn tǎ bù lǐ yà | Cantabria, Spanish autonomous region, capital Santander 桑坦德[Sang1 tan3 de2] |
| 阿利坎特 | Ā lì kǎn tè | Alicante |
| 坎塔布连海 | Kǎn tǎ bù lián hǎi | Bay of Biscay (Spanish: Mare Cantabrico) |
| 坎特伯雷故事集 | Kǎn tè bó léi Gù shì Jí | The Canterbury Tales, collection of stories by Geoffrey Chaucer 喬叟|乔叟[Qiao2 sou3] |
| 坎塔布连山脉 | Kǎn tǎ bù lián shān mài | Cantabrian mountain range in north Spain dividing Asturias from Castilla-Leon |
| 门坎儿 | mén kǎn r | erhua variant of 門坎|门坎[men2 kan3] |
| 坎德拉 | kǎn dé lā | candela (unit of luminosity); standard candle |
| 坎塔布连 | Kǎn tǎ bù lián | Cantabria in north Spain |
| 布坎南 | Bù kǎn nán | (surname) Buchanan |
| 土坎儿 | tǔ kǎn r | erhua variant of 土坎[tu3 kan3] |
| 坎特伯雷 | Kǎn tè bó léi | Canterbury |
| 坎大哈 | Kǎn dà hā | Kandahar (town in Southern Afghanistan) |
| 坎大哈省 | Kǎn dà hā shěng | Kandahar province of Afghanistan |
| 坎贝尔 | Kǎn bèi ěr | Campbell (name) |
| 赤坎区 | Chì kǎn Qū | Chikan, a district of Zhanjiang City 湛江市[Zhan4 jiang1 Shi4], Guangdong |
| 坎子 | kǎn zi | raised ground; bank |
| 心坎 | xīn kǎn | bottom of one's heart |
| 坎儿 | 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… |