坑
kēng HSK7

pit

坑 kēng
variant 阬
pit noun
a hole, pit, or hollow in the ground; a depression in a surface

我们需要更大的坑。

wǒ​men xū​yào gèng dà de kēng.

We need a bigger hole.

to cheat nounverb
(colloquial) to defraud; to cheat; to scam or entrap someone
tunnel noun
an underground tunnel, shaft, or hole, such as in a mine or for defense
to bury alive
(literary) to bury someone alive; to kill by burying
toilet
(colloquial) a latrine or toilet, specifically a pit toilet
surname
a Chinese surname

Cross-References

Has variant

Has erhua variant

Same as

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