懂中文 Dong Chinese

坎

kǎn

pit

Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 欠 represents the sound. Simplified form of 埳.

Components
土 meaning component

土  Meaning component

tǔ

  

earth

欠 sound component

欠  Sound component

qiàn

  

yawn, deficient

Evolution

坎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
坎 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

坎  

kǎn

pit, hole; snare, trap; crisis; pit; threshold; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[bā​guà], symbolizing water; ☵

坎 (埳) 

kǎn

old variant of 坎[kǎn]; hole

Most common words with 坎
Freq.
Word
Meaning

坎

pit

坎坷

bumpy (of a road)

布坎南

Buchanan (surname)

坎贝尔

Campbell (name)

心坎

bottom of one's heart

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

莰