坑 — kanji meaning “pit”
坑
pit, hole
- Meanings
- pit, hole
- On'yomi
- コウ (kou)
- Kun'yomi
- —
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- 8
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #2040 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 32
- Chinese reading
- kēng — Chinese character page
Words with 坑
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 坑道 | こうどう koudou | tunnel; (mining) gallery; level |
| 廃坑 | はいこう haikou | closure of a mine; abandoned mine; disused mine |
| 坑内 | こうない kounai | within a pit or (mine) shaft |
| 坑口 | こうこう koukou | pithead; minehead |
| 坑夫 | こうふ koufu | miner |
| 坑夫 | こうふ koufu | The Miner (1908 novel by Natsume Sōseki) |
| 斜坑 | しゃこう shakou | inclined shaft |
| 立坑 | たてこう tatekou | shaft (e.g. in a mine); pit |
| 焚書坑儒 | ふんしょこうじゅ funshokouju | burning books on the Chinese classics and burying Confucian scholars alive (Qin dynasty thought suppression campaign) |
| 坑内事故 | こうないじこ kounaijiko | mine accident |
| 入坑 | にゅうこう nyuukou | entrance into drift or pit |
| 金坑 | きんこう kinkou | gold mine |
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