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命mìng途tú坎kǎn坷kě
  1. to have a tough life; to meet much adversity in one's life

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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.

Characters in this word

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命
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

life, fate, order or command, to assign a name, title etc

Pinyin
mìng
Strokes
8
Frequency
1561 of 2500
Words starting with 命Words ending in 命Anywhere in a word
途
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

way, route, road

Pinyin
tú
Strokes
10
Frequency
43268 of 2500
Words starting with 途Words ending in 途Anywhere in a word
坎
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

pit, threshold, one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing water, ☵

Pinyin
kǎn
Strokes
7
Frequency
15565 of 2500
Words starting with 坎Words ending in 坎Anywhere in a word
坷
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

used in 坷垃[ke1 la1]

Pinyin
kē
Strokes
8
Words starting with 坷Words ending in 坷Anywhere in a word