坎 kǎn

  1. kǎn noun a pit; a hole
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 坑 (ABC 'kǎn' 坎 n 1; Guoyu '坎'n 1; Kroll 2015 '坎' 1; NCCED '坎' 1; Unihan '坎')
  2. kǎn onomatopoeia kan-kan
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: The sound of striking an object or drumming (ABC 'kǎn' 坎 onom; Guoyu '坎' adj 1; Kroll 2015 '坎' 2)
  3. kǎn noun kan; the trigram for water
    Domain: Literature 文学 , Concept: Trigram 卦
    Notes: One of the 八卦 eight divinatory trigrams listed in the 易經 ”Book of Changes” (ABC 'kǎn' 坎 n 2; Guoyu '坎'n 2; Kroll 2015 '坎' 4; NCCED '坎' 2; Nylan 2001, p. 218)
  4. kǎn noun a candela
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Physics , Concept: Unit 单位
    Notes: Abbreviation for the unit for the intensity of light (NCCED '坎' 4)
  5. kǎn noun a bank; a ridge
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: As in 土坎 (ABC 'kǎn' 坎 bf 1; NCCED '坎' 3)
  6. kǎn noun enigmatic language
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (ABC 'kǎn' 坎 n 3)
  7. kǎn noun a snare; a crisis; danger
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (ABC 'kǎn' 坎 bf 2)
  8. kǎn proper noun Kan
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
    Notes: (Guoyu '坎'n 3)
  9. kǎn onomatopoeia kan-kan; sound of drumming
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '坎' adj 2; Kroll 2015 '坎' 3)
  10. kǎn noun pit; garta
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: garta, Japanese: kan, Tibetan: khung ngam dong (BCSD '坎', p. 293; Mahāvyutpatti 'gartaḥ'; MW 'garta'; Unihan '坎')

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阿利坎特 、 坎德拉每平方米 、 坎肩儿 、 坎迦姆 、 坑坎 、 命途坎坷 、 坎儿 、 土坎儿 、 坎儿井 、 赤坎区 、 心坎 、 土坎 、 坎坎 、 坎坷 、 坎坷多舛 、 坎坷不平 、 坎壈 、 坎德拉 、 兰坎亨 、 坎贝尔侏儒仓鼠 、 赤坎 、 坎子 、 坎肩

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Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 9 Hong Zhi Chan Shi Guang Lu 宏智禪師廣錄 — count: 4
  • Scroll 15 Xin Huayan Jing Lun 新華嚴經論 — count: 4
  • Scroll 93 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 3
  • Scroll 85 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 3
  • Scroll 30 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 3
  • Scroll 3 Mūlasarvāstivādavinayakṣudrakavastu (Genben Shuo Yiqie You Bu Pi Nai Ye Za Shi) 根本說一切有部毘奈耶雜事 — count: 3
  • Scroll 3 Lue Shi Xin Huayan Jing Xiuxing Cidi Jue Yi Lun 略釋新華嚴經修行次第決疑論 — count: 3
  • Scroll 89 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 3
  • Scroll 9 The Great Tang Dynasty Record of the Western Regions 大唐西域記 — count: 2 , has English translation
  • Scroll 13 Xin Huayan Jing Lun 新華嚴經論 — count: 2

Collocations

  • 坎窟 (坎窟) 還入坎窟中 — Story about Five Hundred Buddha Disciples (Fo Wu Bai Dizi Zi Shuo Benqi Jing) 佛五百弟子自說本起經, Scroll 1 — count: 15
  • 崖坎 (崖坎) 或臨崖坎 — Mūlasarvāstivādavinayavibhaṅga (Genben Shuo Yiqie You Bu Pi Nai Ye) 根本說一切有部毘奈耶, Scroll 12 — count: 5
  • 坎井 (坎井) 坎井 — Profound Meaning of the Three Treatises (Sanlun Xuan Yi) 三論玄義, Scroll 1 — count: 4
  • 覆坎 (覆坎) 松覆坎 — A Chronicle of Buddhism in China 佛祖統紀, Scroll 6 — count: 3
  • 居坎 (居坎) 或居坎窟及河邊 — Suvarṇaprabhāsauttamarājasūtra (Jin Guang Ming Zui Sheng Wang Jing) 金光明最勝王經, Scroll 7 — count: 3
  • 猪坎 (豬坎) 爾時在猪坎窟中坐 — Dharmaguputakavinaya (Si Fen Lu) 四分律, Scroll 4 — count: 3
  • 坎轲 (坎軻) 坎軻常無福祐 — Mahāmaṇivipulavimānaviśvasupratiṣṭhitaguhyaparamarahasyakalparājadhāraṇī (Mou Li Mantuoluo Zhou Jing) 牟梨曼陀羅呪經, Scroll 1 — count: 2
  • 三坎 (三坎) 階有三坎 — Zhong Tianzhu Shewei Guo Zhihuan Si Tu Jing 中天竺舍衛國祇洹寺圖經, Scroll 2 — count: 2
  • 河岸坎 (河岸坎) 不依河岸坎側處坐 — Ratnameghasūtra (Chu Gai Zhang Pusa Suo Wen Jing) 佛說除蓋障菩薩所問經, Scroll 14 — count: 2
  • 离坎 (離坎) 离坎乾坤得其中理 — Dafang Guang Fo Huayan Jing Sui Shu Yan Yi Chao 大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔, Scroll 76 — count: 2