kǎn

a pit

(埳) kǎn
hurdle noun
a metaphorical obstacle, difficult period, or critical juncture in life

He hasn't been able to get over that hurdle in his heart yet.

pit noun
a hole, depression, or pit in the ground

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

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

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)