坷 — Chinese character
坷
kě
uneven, bumpy; a clod of earth; a lump of soil
- Pinyin
- kě
- Radical
- 32 ⼟ (Earth)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 土 可
- Formation
- pictophonetic — earth; meaning component 土; sound component 可
Common words with 坷
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 坎坷 | kǎn kě | (of a road) bumpy; (of life) rough; to be down on one's luck; to be full of frustrations and dashed hopes |
| 坷垃 | kē lā | (dialect) clod (of earth) |
| 坎坷不平 | kǎn kě bù píng | potholed and bumpy road (idiom); fig. full of disappointment and dashed hopes |
| 命途坎坷 | mìng tú kǎn kě | to have a tough life; to meet much adversity in one's life |
| 土坷垃 | tǔ kē lā | (dialect) clod of earth |
| 坎坷多舛 | kǎn kě duō chuǎn | full of trouble and misfortune (usu. referring to someone's life) |
English words written with 坷
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.