kǎn
pit
Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 欠 represents the sound. Simplified form of 埳.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 坎
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
pit | ||
bumpy (of a road) | ||
Buchanan (surname) | ||
Campbell (name) | ||
bottom of one's heart |
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ʰˤomʔ | khomX | kǎn | pit (n.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.9335% of movies
2053rd most common character in movies
2446th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+574E |
Shuowen | “坎，陷也。从土，欠聲。” |
Sources
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