Chinese Character 坎 Meanings and components.

Form

坎

Meaning

坎 meaning^[3] in English

Pit.

Threshold.

One Of The Eight Trigrams 八卦[Ba1 Gua4], Symbolizing Water.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi^[2] character 坎 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are Tu (ethnic group) (土) , and deficient (欠)

Its radical^[1] is: 土 (tu3) which means: Tu (Ethnic Group), Surname Tu, .土tu3Tu (ethnic …

In cangjie it is written with GNO

How to write 坎

To write坎kan3pit you should write a combination of 土tu3Tu (ethnic … , 欠qian4deficient arranged in a 吅 shape:

土 + 欠 = 坎

坎 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 坎 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 坎, looks as follow:

坎

Pinyin:kan3 Shape:吅

Meaning^[3]: Pit . Threshold . One Of The Eight Trigrams 八卦[Ba1 Gua4], Symbolizing Water . ☵

土

Pinyin:tu3

Meaning^[3]: Tu (Ethnic Group) . Surname Tu

欠

Pinyin:qian4

Meaning^[3]: Deficient . To Owe . To Lack . Yawn

Notes

[1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical
[2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter
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