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Kanji Detail for 坑 - "pit, mine, hole"
坑
- Meaning
坑 means "pit, mine, hole."
Pit - A depression in the ground; a hole.
To bury - To drop into a hole; to bury in a hole.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
pit; hole
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
pit, hole; bury, trap; harry
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
pit; hollow; depression; (mining) pit; shaft; tunnel; (literary) to bury alive; (coll.) to cheat; to scam; to screw over
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
pit, hole; to trap, to bury; to harry
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Same as 阬. A deep sunken empty place in the ground. | Killing by burying alive is called 坑. Such as Qin Shi Huang's burying of scholars, Xiang Yu's burying of Qin surrendered soldiers. Both in (Records of the Grand Historian).
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