坑
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pit; hollow; depression; (mining) pit; shaft; tunnel; (literary) to bury alive; (coll.) to cheat; to scam; to screw over
Formation & memory
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Words with 坑
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 无底坑 | the bottomless pit (Hell in the Bible); pitless (elevator) | |
| 跳出火坑 | lit. to jump out of a fire pit (idiom); to escape from a living hell; to free oneself from… | |
| 坑人 | (coll.) to cheat; to swindle; to rip sb off; to screw sb over | |
| 大坑 | Tai Hang District, Hong Kong; Dakeng, the name of several places in Taiwan, notably a scen… | |
| 满坑满谷 | (idiom) all over the place; in every nook and cranny; packed to the rafters | |
| 水坑 | puddle; water hole; sump | |
| 天坑 | sinkhole | |
| 茅坑里点灯 | (slang) (fig.) to court death (derived from 找死[zhao3 si3] via its near homophone 照屎[zhao4 … | |
| 坑口 | Hang Hau (area in Hong Kong) | |
| 坑道 | mine shaft; gallery; tunnel | |
| 火坑 | pit of fire; fig. living hell | |
| 散兵坑 | foxhole (military) | |
| 坑木 | pit prop | |
| 基坑 | foundation groove; trench for building foundation | |
| 月坑 | lunar crater | |
| 沙坑 | sandbox; jumping pit (athletics); sand trap, bunker (golf) | |
| 一个萝卜一个坑 | lit. every turnip to its hole (idiom); fig. each person has his own position; each to his … | |
| 沙坑杆 | sand wedge (golf) | |
| 毛坑 | variant of 茅坑[mao2 keng1] | |
| 炮弹坑 | shell crater; shell hole; (fig.) pothole (in a road surface) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 亢 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 亢 sound part | high, proud; violent, excessive; skilled; surname | |
| 航 | vessel, craft; to sail, to navigate | |
| 杭 | ford; surname | |
| 吭 | throat | |
| 炕 | the brick-bed in northern China | |
| 伉 | husband, wife; pair; compare, match | |
| 沆 | ferry; fog; to go with the flow | |
| 闶 | door | |
| 肮 | dirty, filthy | |
| 钪 | scandium | |
| 颃 | to dive, to fly downward |