Chinese Character Wiki

墾

kěn

cultivate

Components
貇 sound component

貇  Sound component

kūn

  

to root

土 meaning component

土  Meaning component

tǔ

  

earth

earth

Evolution

墾 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
墾 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

垦 (墾) 

kěn

cultivate, reclaim, to farm land; to reclaim (land); to cultivate

Most common words with 墾
Freq.
Word
Meaning

开垦

to put under the plow

垦

to cultivate

垦荒

to open up land (for agriculture)

垦殖

to open up land for cultivation

围垦

to reclaim land by diking

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3038th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

垦

Unicode

U+58BE

Shuowen

《說文新附》：“墾，耕也。从土，豤聲。”


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