乾坤 — Semantide dictionary

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乾qián坤kūn

yin and yang; heaven and earth; the universe

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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

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乾

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old variant of 乾[qian2]

Pinyin: qián
Traditional: 乹

Strokes: 11
Frequency: 8595 of 2500

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坤

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one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing earth, female principle, ☷, ancient Chinese compass point: 225° (southwest)

Pinyin: kūn

Strokes: 8
Frequency: 19533 of 2500

Words starting with 坤 Words ending in 坤 Anywhere in a word