kān
adequately capable of
One with a considerable amount 甚 of land 土
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 堪
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
may | ||
hard to take | ||
cannot bear | ||
can be rated as | ||
unthinkable |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[kʰ]ˤ[ə]m | khom | kān | able to bear |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 14.8486% of movies
1774th most common character in movies
1811th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+582A |
Shuowen | “堪，地突也。从土，甚聲。” |
Sources
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