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kǎn
  1. 1.old variant of 坎[kǎn]
  2. 2.pit
  3. 3.hole
kǎn
  1. 1.pit
  2. 2.threshold
  3. 3.one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[bā guà], symbolizing water
  4. 4.

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  1. 1.pit; hole
  2. 2.bank or ridge between fields
  3. 3.critical juncture (Classifier: 道 m)
  4. 4.6th of the 8 trigrams (☵)
  5. 5.29th hexagram of the I Ching (䷜)
  6. 6.a surname
  7. 7.three tiles; set of pung or chow

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kʰoːmʔ, *kʰoːms): semantic 土 (“earth; soil”) + phonetic 欠 (OC *kʰoms). Related to 磡 (OC *kʰuːms, “embankment”) (Schuessler, 2007); see there for more.

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