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Kanji Detail for 坑 - "pit, hole"

坑

  • Meaning

    坑 means "pit, hole." Also associated with to bury.

    1. Pit - A depression in the ground; a hole.

    2. To bury - To drop into a hole; to bury in a hole.

  • Four-character idioms with 坑

    • 焚書坑儒 ふんしょこうじゅ Listen burning books on the Chinese classics and burying Confucian scholars alive (Qin dynasty thought suppression campaign)

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    • Verified meaning: pit, hole
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Also carries these associations: to bury

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • 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).

  • Onyomi

    tip

    koh(コウ) コウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip
    none

  • Strokes

    tip

    7 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    土 (tsuchi・tsuchihen・dohen)

  • Related Keywords

    pit to bury hole mine shaft cavity depression excavation hollow tunnel quarry dig subterranean

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