坤 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Meaning

divination sign, land, earth

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • コン
Kun (native)
  • つち
  • ひつじさる
Other languages
  • 拼音kun1
  • 한글gon
  • Hán-ViệtKhôn

Basics

Strokes
8 strokes
Radical
土(つち)
JIS level
Level 1
Unicode
U+5764

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰土申

Words using this kanji

  • こん(ひつじさる)西南の方角。未(ひつじ)と申(さる)の間であることから。kun (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: earth, southwest)
  • 坤道こんどうthe ways of the earth, the principle of the earth, the ways of women, the path women should follow
  • 坤輿こんよEarth, the world
  • 坤為地こんいちkun (hexagram 2 of the I Ching: earth, the receptive)

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(7 results)

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Lookup codes

SKIP
1-3-5
Four Corner
4510.6
Spahn–Hadamitzky
3b5.1
Heisig
2300
Nelson
1070