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坎 (kǎn)

kǎn

Part of speech
Noun

Meanings

  1. A pit or hole in the ground
  2. Refers to one of the Eight Trigrams (Ba Gua), associated with water in Wu Xing (Five Elements)
  3. Obstacles or difficulties

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