kūn
earth
Phonosemantic compound. 申 represents the meaning and 土 represents the sound. Simplified form of 堃.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 坤
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
☷ | ||
yin and yang | ||
to turn things around | ||
Barkol Kazakh autonomous county or Barköl Qazaq aptonom nahiyisi in Kumul prefecture 哈密地區|哈密地区[Hāmìdìqū], Xinjiang | ||
Barkol Kazakh autonomous county or Barköl Qazaq aptonom nahiyisi in Kumul prefecture 哈密地區|哈密地区[Hāmìdìqū], Xinjiang |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[kʰ]ˤu[n] | khwon | kūn | earth (trigram or hexagram) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.7528% of movies
2814th most common character in movies
2910th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+5764 |
Shuowen | “坤，地也，《易》之卦也。从土，从申。土位在申。” |
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