坎

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

• 崁, 莰, 𥦔, 𬁄, 䤰, 𠥈

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

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.

坎

1. (literary) pit; hole

   • 小臣爪足，浴餘水棄于坎。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     小臣爪足，浴余水弃于坎。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: The Book of Rites, c. 4^th – 2^nd century BCE

     Xiǎochén zhǎo zú, yù yú shuǐ qì yú kǎn. [Pinyin]

     Another servant then pared the nails of the feet, after which they threw away the rest of the water into the pit.

2. bank or ridge between fields

   田坎  ―  tiánkǎn  ―  ridge between fields

3. critical juncture (Classifier: 道 m)
4. 6th of the 8 trigrams (☵)
5. 29th hexagram of the I Ching (䷜)
6. short for 坎德拉 (kǎndélā)
7. a surname

• → Proto-Tai: *C̬.kumᴬ
  • Thai: ขุม (kǔm, “pit”)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

坎

1. (Cantonese, mahjong) three tiles; set of pung or chow
   • 1976, “打雀英雄傳”, 許冠傑 [Sam Hui], 黎彼得 [Peter Lai] (lyrics), performed by 許冠傑 [Sam Hui]:

     混一色　碰七筒　一揀白板發財做眼槓紅中 [Cantonese, trad.]
     混一色　碰七筒　一拣白板发财做眼杠红中 [Cantonese, simp.]

     wan⁶ jat¹ sik¹, pung³ cat¹ tung⁴, jat¹ kaan² baak⁶ baan² faat³ coi⁴ zou⁶ ngaan⁵ gong³ hung⁴ zung¹ [Jyutping]

     half flush // formed a seven-circle pung // three white dragons, green dragons as eyes, and a kong of red dragon

• “坎”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Hyōgai kanji)

• Go-on: こん (kon)
• Kan-on: かん (kan)
• Kun: あな (ana, 坎)

From Middle Chinese 坎 (MC khomX).

• (Tokyo) かん [káꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [kã̠ɴ]

坎(かん) • (kan) 

1. pit; hole; pitfall
2. the sixth of the eight trigrams of the I Ching ☵

   Hypernym: 八卦

   Coordinate terms: 乾, 兌, 離, 震, 巽, 坎, 艮, 坤

3. the twenty-ninth of the sixty-four hexagrams of the I Ching ䷜

   Hypernym: 六十四卦

坎 (eum 감 (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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