墾 kěn cultivate Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Components 貇 貇 Sound component kūn, mào, kěn to root 土 土 Meaning component tǔ earth earth Character Evolution Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Regular Modern ▼ More ▲ Less Historical Pronunciations Old ChineseZhengzhangkʰɯːnʔ Sources Readings & variants Unicode Historical pronunciations Zhengzhang Shangfang Historical images Academia Sinica 垦 kěn cultivate Simplified Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 艮 represents the sound. Simplified form of 墾. Components 土 土 Meaning component tǔ earth 艮 艮 Sound component gěn, gèn, hén blunt Sources Readings & variants Unicode