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Meaning of 塹

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(Simplified: 堑)
Pinyin: qiàn
English Definition: moat around a city
Chinese Definition:
①防御用的壕沟,护城河:堑壕。天堑。
②陷坑,亦喻挫折:吃一堑,长一智。
③挖掘:“环而堑之,及泉”。
Total strokes: 14; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (earth) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
  • Above to below
    • [ zhǎn ] to chop, to cut, to sever; to behead
    • [ ] soil, earth; items made of earth
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Example Sentences
1
I just ate a long cut was a wise.
2
Between graben are relatively high-standing blocks called horsts.
3
使
Because the faults are colossal and very directive, the horst structure is developed.
4
A half-graben is a downdropped block bounded by a normal fault on only one side.
5
Jintang mining area of oil shale lies in the central Maoming Basin which is a half- graben basin.