坤 — Chinese character
坤
kūn
earth; feminine
- Pinyin
- kūn
- Radical
- 32 ⼟ (Earth)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 土 申
- Formation
- pictophonetic — earth; meaning component 申; sound component 土
- Japanese
- 坤 as a kanji
Common words with 坤
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 乾坤 | qián kūn | yin and yang; heaven and earth; the universe |
| 坤包 | kūn bāo | woman's handbag or shoulder bag |
| 扭转乾坤 (扭轉乾坤) | niǔ zhuǎn qián kūn | lit. to upend heaven and earth (idiom); fig. to change the course of events |
| 旋乾转坤 (旋乾轉坤) | xuán qián zhuǎn kūn | lit. overturning heaven and earth (idiom); earth-shattering; a radical change |
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.