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坑

Traditional: 阬

kēng

HSK 3.0 · 7–9HSK 2.0 · 6

Yue Tan · University of Caen; © 2009 Yue Tan. MP3 preparation: Hugo Lopez / audio-cmn · CC BY-SA 3.0 US

kēng · haang1 (Jyutping)

  1. pit; hollow; depression
  2. (mining) pit; shaft; tunnel
  3. (literary) to bury alive
  4. (coll.) to cheat; to scam; to screw over
  5. variant of 坑[keng1]

Definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · snapshot 2026-10-09. Display: consolidated readings, linked characters and marked pinyin. Original data

Character breakdown

坑

Meaning
pit, hole; bury, trap; harry
Radical
土
Strokes
7
Components
⿰土亢
Cangjie
GYHN
Four-corner
4011.7

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