堑 — Chinese character
堑
qiàn
moat, pit, trench; cavity
- Pinyin
- qiàn
- Radical
- 32 ⼟ (Earth)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 斩 土
- Formation
- pictophonetic — earth; meaning component 土; sound component 斩
- Traditional
- 塹
Common words with 堑
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 堑壕 (塹壕) | qiàn háo | trench; entrenchment |
| 天堑 (天塹) | tiān qiàn | natural moat |
| 堑壕战 (塹壕戰) | qiàn háo zhàn | trench warfare |
| 地堑 (地塹) | dì qiàn | trench, rift valley |
| 路堑 (路塹) | lù qiàn | (civil engineering) cutting (for a railway or highway) |
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.