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(Kangxi radical 32, +4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土弓人 (GNO), four-corner 47182, composition)

simp. and trad.
alternative forms

| | Old Chinese | | | -------------------------------- | ------------------ | | | *kʰoːmʔ, *kʰoːms | | | *kʰoːmʔ | | | *kʰoːmʔ | | | *ɡromʔ | | | *kʰoms | | | *qʰom | | | *qʰam |

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰoːmʔ, *kʰoːms): semantic (“earth; soil”) + phonetic (OC *kʰoms).

Related to (OC *kʰuːms, “embankment”) (Schuessler, 2007); see there for more.


Note: ham3 - in 赤坎.


BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
ModernBeijing(Pinyin) kǎn
MiddleChinese khomX
OldChinese /*[k]ʰˁomʔ/
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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 10269 10272
Phoneticcomponent
Rimegroup
Rimesubdivision 3 3
CorrespondingMC rime
OldChinese /*kʰoːmʔ/ /*kʰoːms/
Notes

  1. (literary) pit; hole
  2. bank or ridge between fields
    tiánkǎn ― ridge between fields
  3. critical juncture (Classifier: m)
  4. 6th of the 8 trigrams ()
  5. 29th hexagram of the I Ching ()
  6. Short for 坎德拉 (kǎndélā).
  7. a surname

(Hyōgai kanji)

Kanji in this term
かんHyōgai
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese (MC khomX).

坎(かん) (kan)

  1. pit; hole; pitfall

  2. the sixth of the eight trigrams of the I Ching
    Hypernym: 八卦
    Coordinate terms: , , , , , , ,

  3. the twenty-ninth of the sixty-four hexagrams of the I Ching
    Hypernym: 六十四卦

  4. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

(eum (gam))

  1. pit, hole
  2. snare, trap
  3. crisis

坎: Hán Việt readings: khảm
坎: Nôm readings: khóm, khúm, khăm, khảm, khẳm

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