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  *坑* | 坑* | *坑
pit; hollow; depression / (mining) pit; shaft; tunnel / (literary) to bury alive / (coll.) to cheat; to scam; to screw over
HSK 7-9
lit. every turnip to its hole (idiom) / fig. each person has his own position / each to his own / horses for courses / every kettle has its lid
pit with funerary figures / pit containing terracotta warriors
lit. to occupy a latrine but not shit (proverb) / fig. to be a dog in the manger
to cheat sb
foundation groove / trench for building foundation
concave depression / crater
Tai Hang District, Hong Kong / Dakeng, the name of several places in Taiwan, notably a scenic hilly area of Taichung 台中
to trap / to frame
mine / mine shaft
to swindle
to dig a hole / (fig.) to make things difficult for sb / (neologism) (slang) (of a writer) to start work on a new project
pit of fire / fig. living hell
Hang Hau (area in Hong Kong)
lit. to jump out of a fire pit (idiom); to escape from a living hell / to free oneself from a life of torture
bomb crater; shell crater; mine crater
Turkish toilet / squat toilet / to vacate one's bowels
hole; hollow; depression / low-lying
latrine pit / cesspit
mine shaft / gallery / tunnel
Gukeng or Kukeng township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
to bury alive / to ensnare
hole / pit / pothole
foxhole (military)
impact crater
lunar crater
pitfall / pit as animal trap
(mine) galleries and pits
full of pits and hollows; bumpy
meteorite crater
to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇)
Shenkeng township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
foxhole
tomb pit
mud pit / mire / morass
to dodge a pit only to fall into a well (idiom) / out of the frying pan into the fire
puddle / water hole / sump
(idiom) to swindle, scam and deceive
latrine pit / latrine
Shenkeng township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
out of the frying pan into the fire (idiom)
pit prop
sewage pit
to get one's father involved in a difficult situation / (vulgar) (of sth that makes one feel misled or let down etc) to be a big disappointment
sandbox / jumping pit (athletics) / sand trap, bunker (golf)
the bottomless pit (Hell in the Bible) / pitless (elevator)
uneven (road) / depression (in terrain)
shell crater; shell hole
sinkhole
(idiom) all over the place / in every nook and cranny / packed to the rafters
meteorite impact crater
sand wedge (golf)
cesspit
tandoor
Gukeng or Kukeng township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
(slang) (fig.) to court death (derived from 找死 via its near homophone 照屎)
to cheat / to swindle
layer filled with rammed earth in a tomb pit (archeology)
variant of 茅坑
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *阬* | 阬* | *阬
variant of
HSK 7-9


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