埳 kǎn a pit Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 坎 (埳) kǎn hurdle noun a metaphorical obstacle, difficult period, or critical juncture in life 他还没能跨过心里那道坎。 tā hái méi néng kuàguò xīn lǐ nà dào kǎn. He hasn't been able to get over that hurdle in his heart yet. pit noun a hole, depression, or pit in the ground 路面上有一道深坎,骑自行车时很颠簸。 lùmiàn shàng yǒu yī dào shēn kǎn, qí zìxíngchē shí hěn diānbǒ. There is a deep dip in the road, making it very bumpy to ride a bicycle. ridge noun a low bank, step, or raised edge, such as a ridge between fields 田间的土坎把两块菜地分开了。 tián jiān de tǔ kǎn bǎ liǎng kuài càidì fēnkāi le. An earthen ridge in the field separates the two vegetable plots. trigram proper name the second of the eight trigrams (Bagua) in the I Ching, symbolizing water 我正在学习易经,今天老师详细讲解了坎这一卦的含义。 wǒ zhèngzài xuéxí Yìjīng, jīntiān lǎoshī xiángxì jiǎngjiě le kǎn zhè yī guà de hányì. I am studying the I Ching, and today the teacher explained the meaning of the Kan hexagram in detail. Frequency Movie subtitles 3.93 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 11.5 per million Details Strokes 11 Unicode U+57F3 Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
坎 (埳) kǎn hurdle noun a metaphorical obstacle, difficult period, or critical juncture in life 他还没能跨过心里那道坎。 tā hái méi néng kuàguò xīn lǐ nà dào kǎn. He hasn't been able to get over that hurdle in his heart yet. pit noun a hole, depression, or pit in the ground 路面上有一道深坎,骑自行车时很颠簸。 lùmiàn shàng yǒu yī dào shēn kǎn, qí zìxíngchē shí hěn diānbǒ. There is a deep dip in the road, making it very bumpy to ride a bicycle. ridge noun a low bank, step, or raised edge, such as a ridge between fields 田间的土坎把两块菜地分开了。 tián jiān de tǔ kǎn bǎ liǎng kuài càidì fēnkāi le. An earthen ridge in the field separates the two vegetable plots. trigram proper name the second of the eight trigrams (Bagua) in the I Ching, symbolizing water 我正在学习易经,今天老师详细讲解了坎这一卦的含义。 wǒ zhèngzài xuéxí Yìjīng, jīntiān lǎoshī xiángxì jiǎngjiě le kǎn zhè yī guà de hányì. I am studying the I Ching, and today the teacher explained the meaning of the Kan hexagram in detail.