坤

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one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing earth; female principle; ☷; ancient Chinese compass point: 225° (southwest)

8 strokes Dict coverage rank #3,124 U+5764

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

申 (semantic, “earth”) + 土 (phonetic, tǔ)

components: 土申

female · Heisig RSH #2175

土 soil + monkey

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 土

Siblings built with the same phonetic component 土 (tǔ) — compare how they read:

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
土 sound component	tǔ	soil, earth; items made of earth
杜	dù	to prevent, to restrict, to stop; surname
吐	tǔ	to vomit, to spew out, to cough up; to say
肚	dù	belly; abdomen, bowels
牡	mǔ	male animal; key, door bolt
墅	shù	villa, country house
芏	dù	Shichito matgrass
钍	tǔ	thorium

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
巴里坤哈萨克自治县	Bā lǐ kūn Hā sà kè Zì zhì xiàn	Barkol Kazakh Autonomous County, in Hami City 哈密市[Ha1 mi4 Shi4], Xinjiang
巴里坤草原	Bā lǐ kūn cǎo yuán	Barkol grasslands near Hami in Xinjiang
巴里坤县	Bā lǐ kūn Xiàn	see 巴里坤哈薩克自治縣\|巴里坤哈萨克自治县[Ba1 li3 kun1 Ha1 sa4 ke4 Zi4 zhi4 xian4]
巴里坤	Bā lǐ kūn	see 巴里坤哈薩克自治縣\|巴里坤哈萨克自治县[Ba1 li3 kun1 Ha1 sa4 ke4 Zi4 zhi4 xian4]
旋乾转坤	xuán qián zhuǎn kūn	lit. overturning heaven and earth (idiom); earth-shattering; a radical change
坤包	kūn bāo	woman's handbag or shoulder bag
扭转乾坤	niǔ zhuǎn qián kūn	lit. to upend heaven and earth (idiom); fig. to change the course of events; to turn thing…
坤甸	Kūn diàn	Pontianak city, capital of West Kalimantan, Indonesia
乾坤	qián kūn	yin and yang; heaven and earth; the universe