Memory phrase for the character: 坎

坎

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Meaning bumpy, hole, pit, threshold, snare

Pronunciation

kǎn

Explanation

Left: earth 土, right: lack 欠 (A yawning person 人 is lacking sth.)

Mnemonic
 
If earth is lacking, it becomes: bumpy.

Radicals

土 earth, ground
欠 lack, yawn
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 Vocabulary

坎帕拉 Kǎn pà lā  Kampala, capital of Uganda
心坎 xīn kǎn  bottom of one's heart
坎坷 kǎn kě  bumpy (of a road); rough (of life); to be down on one's luck; to be full of frustrations and dashed hopes
坎贝尔侏儒仓鼠 Kǎn bèi ěr zhū rú cāng shǔ  Campbell's dwarf hamster (Phodopus campbelli)
坎坷多舛 kǎn kě duō chuǎn  full of trouble and misfortune (usu. referring to someone's life)
坎坷不平 kǎn kě bù píng  pot-holed and bumpy road (idiom); fig. full of disappointment and dashed hopes
坎坷不平 kǎn kě bù píng  

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