坑
kēng HSK7

pit

坑 kēng
pit noun
a hole, hollow, or depression in the ground

小心，别掉进地上的坑里。

xiǎo​xīn, bié diào jìn dì​shang de kēng lǐ.

Watch out; don't fall into the hole in the ground.

bury alive verb
to bury people alive as a form of execution or mass killing

焚书坑儒是秦朝著名的历史事件。

fén​shū kēng rú shì Qín​cháo zhù​míng de lì​shǐ shì​jiàn.

The burning of books and burying of scholars was a famous historical event in the Qin Dynasty.

cheat verb
to scam, defraud, or trick someone out of something

那家店的价格太高，明显是在坑人。

nà jiā diàn de jià​gé tài gāo, míng​xiǎn shì zài kēng rén.

The prices at that shop are too high; it's clearly a rip-off.

mine pit noun
an excavation, shaft, or tunnel used for mining purposes

这个矿坑已经废弃多年了。

zhè gè kuàng kēng yǐ​jīng fèi​qì duō nián le.

This mine pit has been abandoned for many years.

Cross-References

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,242nd most common 27.0 per million
Movie subtitles
2,291st most common 12.3 per million appears in 6% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
10.3 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
46.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+5751

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