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


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