坑 kēng
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kēng
noun
a pit
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Middle Chinese: khaeng (Kroll 2015 '坑' 1) -
kēng
verb
to entrap; to bury alive
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '坑' 2)
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- 蹲坑 Turkish toilet; squat toilet; to vacate one's bowels
- 墓坑夯土层(墓坑夯土層) layer filled with rammed earth in a tomb pit
- 墓坑 tomb pit
- 粪坑(糞坑) latrine; cesspit
- 坑害 to trap; to frame
- 茅厕坑(茅廁坑) latrine; cesspit
- 沙坑 sandbox; jumping pit (athletics); sand trap, bunker (golf)
- 坑杀(坑殺) to bury alive; to ensnare
- 坑坑洼洼(坑坑窪窪) bumpy; full of potholes
- 避弹坑(避彈坑) foxhole
- 跳出釜底进火坑(跳出釜底進火坑) out of the frying pan into the fire
- 陷坑 pitfall; pit as animal trap
- 无底坑(無底坑) the Bottomless Pit; Hell
- 坑堑(坑塹) a defensive moat beside a rampart
- 弹坑(彈坑) bomb crater
- 陨坑(隕坑) meteorite crater
- 月坑 lunar crater
- 凹坑 concave depression; crater
- 占着茅坑不拉屎(占著茅坑不拉屎) to occupy a latrine but not shit; to be a dog in the manger
- 坑蒙拐骗(坑蒙拐騙) to swindle; to cheat
- 坑井 (mine) galleries and pits
- 坑洞 hole; pit; pothole
- 水坑 a puddle; a sump
- 泥坑 mud pit; mire; morass
- 坑爹 dishonest; fraudulent; deceptive
- 基坑 foundation groove; trench for building foundation
- 坑道 mine shaft; gallery; tunnel
- 坑坎 uneven (road); depression (in terrain)
- 坑洼(坑窪) pothole; dip in the road
- 矿坑(礦坑) mine; mine shaft
- 沙坑杆(沙坑桿) sand wedge (golf)
- 污水坑 cesspit
- 俑坑 pit with funerary figures; pit containing terracotta warriors
- 坑木 pit prop
- 火坑 pit of fire; an inferno ; the mundane world ; living hell
- 跳出火坑 to jump out of a fire pit; to escape from a living hell; to free oneself from a life of torture
- 陨石坑(隕石坑) meteorite impact crater
- 散兵坑 foxhole
- 焚书坑儒(焚書坑儒) to burn the books and bury Confucian scholars alive
- 坑骗(坑騙) to cheat; to swindle
- 茅坑 latrine pit; latrine
- 满坑满谷(滿坑滿谷) all over the place; in every nook and cranny; packed to the rafters
- 一个萝卜一个坑(一個蘿蔔一個坑) every turnip to its hole; each person has his own position; each to his own; horses for courses; every kettle has its lid
- 坑蒙 to swindle
- 渗坑(滲坑) sewage pit
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