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Kanji Detail for 坎 - "pit, fall, suffer, trigram, hexagram"

  • Meaning

    坎 means "pit, fall, suffer, trigram, hexagram."

    1. Pit - A hole.

    2. Fall - To sink into; to entrap.

    3. Suffer - To be troubled; to struggle.

    4. Trigram - One of the eight trigrams in the I Ching.

    5. Hexagram - One of the 64 hexagrams in the I Ching.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    pitfall

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    pit, hole; snare, trap; crisis; trigram ☵; hexagram ䷜

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    pit; threshold; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing water; ☵

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    pit, hole; to trap, to snare; crisis

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A trigram name. Sinking; dangerous. All sunken places are called 坎.
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