坑 - kēng - Chinese character definition, English meaning and stroke order

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坑

kēng

Definition

hole
pit
tunnel
to defraud

Character Decomposition

Related words (37)

坑井

kēng jǐng

(mine) galleries and pits

to cheat sb

uneven (road); depression (in terrain)

to trap; to frame

pit prop

to bury alive; to ensnare

hole; pit; pothole

pothole; dip in the road

坑爹

kēng diē

(Internet slang) dishonest; fraudulent; deceptive

to swindle

mine shaft; gallery; tunnel

to cheat; to swindle

bumpy; full of pot-holes

to swindle; to cheat

pit with funerary figures; pit containing terracotta warriors

凹坑

āo kēng

concave depression; crater

基坑

jī kēng

foundation groove; trench for building foundation

tomb pit

bomb crater

lunar crater

puddle; water hole; sump

沙坑

shā kēng

sandbox; jumping pit (athletics); sand trap, bunker (golf)

泥坑

ní kēng

mud pit; mire; morass

sewage pit

pit of fire; (fig.) living hell

mine; mine shaft

latrine pit; latrine

meteorite crater

pitfall; pit as animal trap

foxhole (military)

the bottomless pit (Hell in the Bible); pitless (elevator)

cesspit

sand wedge (golf)

foxhole

filling every nook and cranny

焚书坑儒

fén shū kēng rú

to burn the books and bury alive the Confucian scholars (one of the crimes of the first Emperor in 212 BC)

墓坑夯土层

mù kēng hāng tǔ céng

layer filled with rammed earth in a tomb pit (archeology)

Proverbs (1)

占着茅坑不拉屎

zhàn zhe máo kēng bù lā shǐ

(lit.) to occupy a latrine but not shit (proverb); (fig.) to be a dog in the manger

Idioms (4)

跳出火坑

tiào chū huǒ kēng

(lit.) to jump out of a fire pit (idiom); to escape from a living hell; to free oneself from a life of torture

避坑落井

bì kēng luò jǐng

to dodge a pit only to fall into a well (idiom); out of the frying pan into the fire

一个萝卜一个坑

yī gè luó bo yī gè kēng

(lit.) every turnip to its hole (idiom); (fig.) each person has his own position; each to his own; horses for courses; every kettle has its lid

跳出釜底进火坑

tiào chū fǔ dǐ jìn huǒ kēng

out of the frying pan into the fire (idiom)

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