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Meaning of 坷

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Pinyin:
English Definition: uneven (path); unfortunate (in life)
Chinese Definition:
①(坎坷)见“坎”。
Total strokes: 8; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (earth) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
  • Left to right
    • [ ] soil, earth; items made of earth
    • [ ] may, can, -able; possibly
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Example Words
坎坷 kǎn bumpy (of a road); rough (of life); to be down on one's luck; to be full of frustrations and dashed hopes
坎坷不平 kǎn píng potholed and bumpy road (idiom); fig. full of disappointment and dashed hopes
命途坎坷 mìng kǎn to have a tough life; to meet much adversity in one's life
坎坷不遇 kǎn to have met with many difficulties but few opportunities (idiom)
坎坷多舛 kǎn duō chuǎn full of trouble and misfortune (usu. referring to someone's life)
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Example Sentences
1
Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people.
2
Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people.
3
西
Of course. Carnation is a sign of maternal love in the West. Am I right?
4
Learning English way is bumpy let us join hands to advance together!
5
1476
English began to grow more quickly when William Caxton returned to Britain in the year fourteen seventy-six.