坎
kǎn

pit

坎 kǎn
variant 埳
pit
a pit; a hole in the ground; a depression
critical point
a critical juncture; a threshold; a key moment or difficulty that is hard to overcome
Kan trigram
the kǎn trigram (☵) or hexagram (䷜) from the 八卦 bā​guà, representing water and danger
坎 kǎn
ridge
a ridge of earth between fields; a small bank of soil
candela
(abbreviation) the unit of luminous intensity, candela
clatter
(literary) the sound of percussion, such as drumming or chopping wood
jargon
professional jargon; underworld argot; enigmatic or insinuating language
surname
a Chinese surname

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Abbreviation of

Same as

Has variant

Has erhua variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,446th most common 20.4 per million
Movie subtitles
2,053rd most common 17.7 per million appears in 5% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
3.93 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
11.5 per million

Details
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+574E

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)