坑 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning

pit, hole

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • コウJHS
Other languages
  • 拼音keng1
  • 한글gaeng
  • Hán-ViệtKháng
  • Hán-ViệtKhanh
  • Hán-ViệtGanh

Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.

Basics

Strokes
7 strokes
Radical
土(つち)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+5751

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰土亢

Words using this kanji

  • 坑道こうどう地下に設けられた通路。地下道。 鉱山などの坑内に設けられた通路。tunnel, (mining) gallery, level, shaft
  • 坑内こうない鉱山などの坑の内部。within a pit or (mine) shaft
  • 坑口こうこう炭鉱などの坑道の入り口。pithead, minehead
  • こうpit (esp. of a mine)
  • 坑夫こうふ鉱山などの坑内で働く労働者。miner
  • 坑木こうぼく坑道の壁や天井を補強するための支柱とする木材。mine timbers
  • 坑外こうがい鉱山の坑道の外。out of the pit
  • 坑儒こうじゅ中国秦の始皇帝が儒教を弾圧し、儒者を生き埋めにしたこと。burying Confucian scholars alive
  • 坑底こうていmine-pit bottom
  • 坑井こうせい鉱山で通気、鉱石の運搬、作業者の出入りなどに使用する縦坑。winze (mining), well (oil, gas)
  • 坑夫こうふ鉱山などの坑内で働く労働者。The Miner (1908 novel by Natsume Sōseki)
  • 坑内事故こうないじこmine accident
  • 坑内掘りこうないぼりunderground mining
  • 坑内掘り炭鉱こうないぼりたんこうunderground coal mine

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

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Lookup codes

SKIP
1-3-4
Four Corner
4011.7
Spahn–Hadamitzky
3b4.6
Heisig
328
Nelson
1063