堪 kān
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kān
verb
adequately capable of; worthy of
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '堪' adv; Unihan '堪') -
kān
verb
to endure; to bear
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '堪'; Guoyu '堪' adj)
Contained in
- 拥挤不堪(擁擠不堪) overcrowded; jam-packed
- 不堪设想(不堪設想) too horrible to contemplate; unthinkable; inconceivable
- 苦不堪言 to suffer unspeakable misery; indescribably painful; hellish
- 堪舆(堪輿) geomancy
- 凌乱不堪(凌亂不堪) in a terrible mess
- 堪察加柳莺(堪察加柳鶯) Kamchatka leaf warbler (Phylloscopus examinandus)
- 门庭冷落，门堪罗雀(門庭冷落，門堪羅雀) The courtyard is deserted, you can net sparrows at the door; completely deserted
- 堪称(堪稱) can be rated as; can be said to be
- 堪察加 Kamchatka (peninsula in far eastern Russia)
- 狼狈不堪(狼狽不堪) battered and exhausted; stuck in a dilemma
- 堪忧(堪憂) worrying; bleak
- 不堪忍受 unbearable
- 难堪(難堪) embarrassing ; hard to deal with
- 不堪 cannot bear; cannot stand ; not able to do ; extremely
- 破败不堪(破敗不堪) crushed; utterly defeated
- 不堪入目 unbearable to look at; an eyesore
- 不堪一击(不堪一擊) to be unable to withstand a single blow; to collapse at the first blow
- 堪虞 worrisome; precarious; to be at risk
- 可堪 how can one endure?; to be able to endure
- 情何以堪 how can this be endured!
Also contained in
堪培拉 、 斯堪的纳维亚 、 堪察加半岛 、 堪达哈尔 、 堪萨斯 、 斯堪地纳维亚 、 堪萨斯州
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- 卷八十四 列傳第五十四 王恭 庾楷 劉牢之 殷仲堪 楊佺期 Volume 84 Biographies 54: Wang Gong; Yu Kai; Liu Laozhi; Yin Zhongkan; Yang Quanqi Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 77
- 卷九十九 列傳第六十九 桓玄 卞範之 殷仲文 Volume 99 Biographies 69: Huan Xuan; Bian Fanzhi; Duan Zhongwen Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 35
- 卷三十六 楚元王傳 Volume 36: Prince Yuan of Chu --- Liu Xiang and Liu Xin Book of Han 漢書 — count: 28
- 卷97 島夷桓玄 海夷馮跋 島夷劉裕 Volume 97: Huan Xuan of the Daoyi People, Feng Ba of the Haiyi, Liu Yu of the Daoyi Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 22
- 卷八十三 列傳第五十三 顧和 袁瑰 江逌 車胤 殷顗 王雅 Volume 83 Biographies 53: Gu He; Yuan Mei; Jiang You; Che Yin; Yin Yi; Wang Ya Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 18
- 卷34 志第29 經籍三 Volume 34 Treatises 29: Bibliography 3 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 15
- 卷三十一 郭杜孔張廉王蘇羊賈陸列傳 Volume 31: Biographies of Guo, Du, Kong, Zhang, Lian, Wang, Su, Yang, Jia, Lu Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 14
- 卷一百〇五 載記第五 石勒下 Volume 105 Records 5: Shi Le Part Two Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 14
- 卷八十五 列傳第五十五 劉毅 諸葛長民 何無忌 檀憑之 魏詠之 Volume 85 Biographies 55: Liu Yi; Zhuge Changmin; He Wuji; Tan Pingzhi; Wei Yongzhi Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 14
- 卷七十八 蕭望之傳 Volume 78: Xiao Wangzhi Book of Han 漢書 — count: 13
Collocations
- 周堪 (周堪) 光祿大夫周堪輔政 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷二十七上 五行志 Volume 27a: Treatise on the Five Elements 1 — count: 13
- 克堪 (剋堪) 克堪用德 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 多方 Zhou Shu - Numerous Regions — count: 5
- 所能堪 (所能堪) 非庸材所能堪 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷八十三 薛宣朱博傳 Volume 83: Xue Xuan and Zhu Bo — count: 5
- 闵堪 (閔堪) 閔堪 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷十二 王劉張李彭盧列傳 Volume 12: Biographies of Wang, Liu, Zhang, Li, Peng, Lu — count: 5
- 征堪 (徵堪) 上復徵堪領尚書 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷二十七上 五行志 Volume 27a: Treatise on the Five Elements 1 — count: 4
- 言堪 (言堪) 史皆言堪 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷三十六 楚元王傳 Volume 36: Prince Yuan of Chu --- Liu Xiang and Liu Xin — count: 3
- 巢堪 (巢堪) 太常太山巢堪為司空 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷四 孝和孝殤帝紀 Volume 4: Annals of Emperor Xiaohe; Emperor Xiaoshang — count: 3
- 未堪 (未堪) 未堪家多難 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 周頌‧閔予小子之什‧訪落 Sacrificial odes of Zhou - Decade Of Min Yu Xiao Zi - Fang Luo — count: 3
- 堪家 (堪家) 未堪家多難 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 周頌‧閔予小子之什‧訪落 Sacrificial odes of Zhou - Decade Of Min Yu Xiao Zi - Fang Luo — count: 3
- 堪等 (堪等) 欲入堪等 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷七十八 蕭望之傳 Volume 78: Xiao Wangzhi — count: 2