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坎

坎

坎 U+574E, 坎
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-574E
← 坍
[U+574D] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 坏 →
[U+574F]

Translingual

Han character

坎 (radical 32 土+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土弓人 (GNO), four-corner 47182, composition ⿰土欠)

  1. pit, hole
  2. snare, trap
  3. crisis
  4. 6th of the 8 trigrams
  5. 29th hexagram of the I Ching

References

  • KangXi: page 225, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4928
  • Dae Jaweon: page 460, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 425, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+574E

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 坎

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (欠) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
坎 *kʰoːmʔ, *kʰoːms
扻 *kʰoːmʔ
砍 *kʰoːmʔ
芡 *ɡromʔ
欠 *kʰoms
杴 *qʰom
鍁 *qʰam

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 坎
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 覃 (159)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 苦感切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰʌmX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰəmX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰɒmX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰəmX/
Li
Rong		 /kʰᴀmX/
Wang
Li		 /kʰɒmX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰămX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 kǎn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 坎
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 kǎn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khomX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ʰˤomʔ/
English pit (n.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 坎 坎
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 10269 10272
Phonetic
component		 欠 欠
Rime
group		 談 談
Rime
subdivision		 3 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 坎 勘
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰoːmʔ/ /*kʰoːms/
Notes 墈正體

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坎

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Japanese

Kanji

坎

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

坎 • ‎(gam) (hangeul 감, revised gam, McCune-Reischauer kam)

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Vietnamese

Han character

坎 (khảm)

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