坎

埳
kǎn
#2,441 most
frequent character
pit, hole, old variant of 坎[kan3]

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

坎 combines 土, earth, with 欠 qiàn as the sound part, though the link is not obvious today. Earth points to the first meaning, a sunken hollow in the ground. It grew to pit, threshold, and a trigram symbolizing water.

坎 as a component in other characters

sound1 character
莰

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Same Characters, Different Readings

坎kǎn
pit, threshold

Homophones

HSK 5
砍kǎn
to chop, to cut down, to throw sth at sb

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