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字HANZI DESK

坎

Traditional: 埳

kǎn

kǎn

  1. pit
  2. threshold
  3. one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing water
  4. ☵
  5. old variant of 坎[kan3]
  6. hole

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Character breakdown

坎

Meaning
pit, hole; snare, trap; crisis; trigram ☵; hexagram ䷜
Radical
土
Strokes
7
Components
⿰土欠
Cangjie
GNO
Four-corner
4718.2

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