坎
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pit; threshold; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing water; ☵
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 土 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 坎
- Common rank
- #1,675
- Unicode
- U+574E
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Formation & memory
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Words with 坎
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 阿尔坎塔拉 | Alcántara, municipality in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain; Alcantara, Brazil … | |
| 坎塔布里亚 | Cantabria, Spanish autonomous region, capital Santander 桑坦德[Sang1 tan3 de2] | |
| 阿利坎特 | Alicante | |
| 坎塔布连海 | Bay of Biscay (Spanish: Mare Cantabrico) | |
| 坎特伯雷故事集 | The Canterbury Tales, collection of stories by Geoffrey Chaucer 喬叟|乔叟[Qiao2 sou3] | |
| 坎塔布连山脉 | Cantabrian mountain range in north Spain dividing Asturias from Castilla-Leon | |
| 门坎儿 | erhua variant of 門坎|门坎[men2 kan3] | |
| 坎德拉 | candela (unit of luminosity); standard candle | |
| 坎塔布连 | Cantabria in north Spain | |
| 布坎南 | (surname) Buchanan | |
| 土坎儿 | erhua variant of 土坎[tu3 kan3] | |
| 坎特伯雷 | Canterbury | |
| 坎大哈 | Kandahar (town in Southern Afghanistan) | |
| 坎大哈省 | Kandahar province of Afghanistan | |
| 坎贝尔 | Campbell (name) | |
| 赤坎区 | Chikan, a district of Zhanjiang City 湛江市[Zhan4 jiang1 Shi4], Guangdong | |
| 坎子 | raised ground; bank | |
| 心坎 | bottom of one's heart | |
| 坎儿 | critical juncture; key moment | |
| 坎儿井 | karez, qanat or "horizontal well" (irrigation and water management system used in Xinjiang… |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 欠 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 欠 sound part | to lack, to owe; to breathe, to yawn | |
| 软 | soft, pliable, flexible; weak | |
| 吹 | to blow, to puff; to brag, to boast | |
| 饮 | to swallow, to drink; a kind of drink | |
| 钦 | to respect, to admire; royal | |
| 砍 | to hack, to chop, to cut, to fell | |
| 炊 | meal; to cook, to steam | |
| 嵌 | valley, ravine; to fall into; to inlay, to set in | |
| 芡 | Gorgon plant, fox nut | |
| 欿 | sad, gloomy, discontent | |
| 肷 | the area between the waist and hips |