坤
Meanings
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- 1.one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[bā guà], symbolizing earth
- 2.female principle
- 3.☷
- 4.ancient Chinese compass point: 225° (southwest)
- 1.variant of 坤[kūn]
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Wiktionary
- 1.earth
- 2.feminine, female
- 3.eighth of the eight trigrams (bagua) used in Taoist cosmology, represented by the symbol ☷
- 4.second hexagram of the I Ching, represented by the symbol ䷁
- 5.Used as a replacement for 雞 /鸡 (jī, “chicken”) or its homophones.
- 6.two and a half years
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Etymology
Written as 川 in the Han Stone Classics, Haihunhou bamboo slips, and Mawangdui silk texts (possibly the Kun trigram rotated 90° clockwise), and as 𡘩 in the Wangjiatai and Tsinghua bamboo slips. Note similarities to Burmese ကုန်း (kun:, “earth”).
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Related words
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