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坎 — 7 strokes ／ Radical「土」

道
1University / general (hardest) ／ 7 strokes ／ Radical「土」
On
カンかん · kan
Kun
あなana
Meaning
a pit

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

Earth 土 with 欠 as phonetic: a hollow dug in the ground; also one of the eight trigrams.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 坎あな

    a pit; a hollow

  • 八卦はっけ

    the eight trigrams

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

道(みち)に掘(ほ)られた坎(かん)に足(あし)を取(と)られた。

I caught my foot in a pit dug in the road.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

八卦八卦坎八eight卦divina…圦sluice…址ruins坏an ear…圻the ca…坩crucib…刋to cut丱child'…奸wicked扞to war…杆a pole
CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

Map of radical 土Map of reading カンAll maps

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