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Kanji Detail for 阬 - "pit, bury alive"
阬
- Meaning
阬 means "pit, bury alive."
Pit - A hole dug in the ground.
Bury alive - To inter while still living.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
pit; hole; shaft
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
pit, hole, shaft
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
variant of 坑[keng1]
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
阬坎. A pit dug in the earth. A small one is called 坎. A large one is called 阬. | To bury alive. Like the colloquial term for burying alive. Bai Qi buried hundreds of thousands of surrendered Zhao soldiers alive at Changping. Qin Shi Huang had the incident of burying Confucian scholars alive. Both are found in the Records of the Grand Historian. Also written as 坑.
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