凵 - kǎn - Chinese character definition, English meaning and stroke order

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凵

kǎn

Definition

receptacle
open box
meaning component (cave, enclosure, hollowness, sunkenness...)
radical (Kang Xi 17)

Character Decomposition

Compounds (14)

出

chū

to go out; to come out; out; to leave; to arrive; to exceed; to go beyond; issue; to put up; to give; to send out; to stand; to produce; to turn out; to grow

山

shān

mountain; hill; meaning component (stone, tall thing, mountain, hill, valley, rock); radical (Kang Xi 46); peak; massif; anything that resembles a mountain

画

huà

to draw; drawing; to paint; painting; picture; to mark; to sign; stroke (in a Chinese character); to delimit

凶

xiōng

terrible; murder; act of violence; ferocious; crop failure (or famine); ominous; inauspicious; fierce; fearful

涵

hán

to contain; to include; culvert

函

hán

envelope; case; letter