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(of a road) bumpy; (of life) rough; to be down on one's luck; to be full of frustrations and dashed hopes
full of trouble and misfortune (usu. referring to someone's life)
raised ground / bank
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *坎* | 坎* | *坎
pit / threshold / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing water /
sleeveless jacket (usually cotton) / Chinese waistcoat
Cancún
(Tw) Cannes, France
candela (unit of luminosity) / standard candle
Kampala, capital of Uganda
(dialect) just now
karez, qanat or "horizontal well" (irrigation and water management system used in Xinjiang, Central Asia and Middle East)
(TCM) umbilical cord (used as medicine)
Cantabria, Spanish autonomous region, capital Santander 桑坦德
Canterbury
Campbell (name)
Bay of Biscay (Spanish: Mare Cantabrico)
potholed and bumpy road (idiom); fig. full of disappointment and dashed hopes
Canberra, capital of Australia (Tw)
Cantabria in north Spain
Kandahar (town in Southern Afghanistan)
The Canterbury Tales, collection of stories by Geoffrey Chaucer 喬叟|乔叟
critical juncture / key moment
Kandahar province of Afghanistan
Campbell's dwarf hamster (Phodopus campbelli)
Cantabrian mountain range in north Spain dividing Asturias from Castilla-Leon
to meet with misfortune
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *埳* | 埳* | *埳
old variant of / pit / hole
erhua variant of 坎肩


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