坤
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one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing earth; female principle; ☷; ancient Chinese compass point: 225° (southwest)
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 土 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 坤
- Common rank
- #3,124
- Unicode
- U+5764
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Formation & memory
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Words with 坤
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 巴里坤哈萨克自治县 | Barkol Kazakh Autonomous County, in Hami City 哈密市[Ha1 mi4 Shi4], Xinjiang | |
| 巴里坤草原 | Barkol grasslands near Hami in Xinjiang | |
| 巴里坤县 | 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 | 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 | lit. overturning heaven and earth (idiom); earth-shattering; a radical change | |
| 坤包 | woman's handbag or shoulder bag | |
| 扭转乾坤 | lit. to upend heaven and earth (idiom); fig. to change the course of events; to turn thing… | |
| 坤甸 | Pontianak city, capital of West Kalimantan, Indonesia | |
| 乾坤 | yin and yang; heaven and earth; the universe |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 土 — compare how they read.