坑
pit; hollow; depression; (mining) pit; shaft; tunnel; (literary) to bury alive; (coll.) to cheat; to scam; to screw over
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Dict coverage rank #1,398 U+5751
How 坑 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
土 (semantic, “earth”) + 亢 (phonetic, kàng)
How to remember it
pit · Heisig RSH #323
whirlwind + 土 soil
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 亢
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 亢 (kàng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 亢 sound component | kàng | high, proud; violent, excessive; skilled; surname |
| 航 | háng | vessel, craft; to sail, to navigate |
| 杭 | háng | ford; surname |
| 吭 | kēng | throat |
| 炕 | kàng | the brick-bed in northern China |
| 伉 | kàng | husband, wife; pair; compare, match |
| 沆 | hàng | ferry; fog; to go with the flow |
| 闶 | kāng | door |
| 肮 | āng | dirty, filthy |
| 钪 | kàng | scandium |
| 颃 | háng | to dive, to fly downward |
Words containing 坑
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 无底坑 | wú dǐ kēng | the bottomless pit (Hell in the Bible); pitless (elevator) |
| 跳出火坑 | tiào chū huǒ kēng | lit. to jump out of a fire pit (idiom); to escape from a living hell; to free oneself from… |
| 坑人 | kēng rén | (coll.) to cheat; to swindle; to rip sb off; to screw sb over |
| 大坑 | Dà kēng | Tai Hang District, Hong Kong; Dakeng, the name of several places in Taiwan, notably a scen… |
| 满坑满谷 | mǎn kēng mǎn gǔ | (idiom) all over the place; in every nook and cranny; packed to the rafters |
| 水坑 | shuǐ kēng | puddle; water hole; sump |
| 天坑 | tiān kēng | sinkhole |
| 茅坑里点灯 | máo kēng lǐ diǎn dēng | (slang) (fig.) to court death (derived from 找死[zhao3 si3] via its near homophone 照屎[zhao4 … |
| 坑口 | Kēng kǒu | Hang Hau (area in Hong Kong) |
| 坑道 | kēng dào | mine shaft; gallery; tunnel |
| 火坑 | huǒ kēng | pit of fire; fig. living hell |
| 散兵坑 | sǎn bīng kēng | foxhole (military) |
| 坑木 | kēng mù | pit prop |
| 基坑 | jī kēng | foundation groove; trench for building foundation |
| 月坑 | yuè kēng | lunar crater |
| 沙坑 | shā kēng | sandbox; jumping pit (athletics); sand trap, bunker (golf) |
| 一个萝卜一个坑 | yī gè luó bo yī gè kēng | lit. every turnip to its hole (idiom); fig. each person has his own position; each to his … |
| 沙坑杆 | shā kēng gān | sand wedge (golf) |
| 毛坑 | máo kēng | variant of 茅坑[mao2 keng1] |
| 炮弹坑 | pào dàn kēng | shell crater; shell hole; (fig.) pothole (in a road surface) |