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Definition(s) for: 坎儿井

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
坎儿井 kǎn r jǐng - karez, qanat or "horizontal well" (irrigation and water management system used in Xinjiang, Central Asia and Middle East)

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - - 80,775 110,574

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
kǎn- pit
- threshold
- one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing water
- ☵
kǎn- old variant of 坎[kan3]
- pit
- hole
rén- variant of 人[ren2]
- "person" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 10), occurring in 兒, 兀, 兄 etc
ér- child
- son
r- non-syllabic diminutive suffix
- retroflex final
jǐng- Jing, one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy
- surname Jing
jǐng- a well
- CL:口[kou3]
- neat
- orderly

Other Words Containing 坎儿井

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo