坤
kūn
#2,904 most
frequent character
one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing earth
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
坤 has 土 earth as the meaning part. 申 is now empty; it was likely 㬰, the old sound part. The character first meant 'land', and later named the earth trigram.
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