垦

to reclaim (land); to cultivate

9 strokes Dict coverage rank #3,073 U+57A6

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

土 (semantic, “earth”) + 艮 (phonetic, gèn)

components: 艮土

reclaim · Heisig RSH #2505

silver + 土 soil

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 艮

Siblings built with the same phonetic component 艮 (gèn) — compare how they read:

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
艮 sound component	gèn	blunt; tough, chewy
眼	yǎn	eyelet, hole, opening
根	gēn	root, basis, foundation
银	yín	silver; cash, money, wealth
退	tuì	to retreat, to step back, to withdraw
限	xiàn	boundary, limit, line
恨	hèn	to dislike, to hate, to resent
跟	gēn	heel; to accompany, to follow; with
痕	hén	scar, mark; vestige, trace
龈	yín	gums
狠	hěn	vicious, fierce, cruel
恳	kěn	sincere, earnest, cordial
垠	yín	boundary, river bank
哏	gén	the clamor of an argument; funny; odd
很	hěn	very, quite, much
茛	gèn	ranunculus
裉	kèn	a garment seam

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
垦丁国家公园	Kěn dīng Guó jiā Gōng yuán	Kenting National Park on the Hengchun Peninsula 恆春半島\|恒春半岛[Heng2 chun1 Ban4 dao3], Pingtung…
垦利区	Kěn lì Qū	Kenli, a district of Dongying City 東營市\|东营市[Dong1 ying2 Shi4], Shandong
海涂围垦	hǎi tú wéi kěn	tideland reclamation
垦利	Kěn lì	see 墾利區\|垦利区[Ken3 li4 Qu1]
开垦	kāi kěn	to clear a wild area for cultivation; to put under the plow
垦丁	Kěn dīng	Kenting, a national park on the southern tip of Taiwan, popular as a tourist destination (…
围垦	wéi kěn	to reclaim land by diking
垦荒	kěn huāng	to open up land (for agriculture)
垦殖	kěn zhí	to open up land for cultivation
垦耕	kěn gēng	to bring under cultivation (scrubland, marshland etc)
屯垦	tún kěn	to garrison troops to open up land