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埳

简坎 · 繁埳

Mandarin · pinyin kǎn

old variant of 坎 kǎn
pit
hole

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埳: Look up this written character
坎: kǎn · pit, hole; snare, trap; crisis; trigram ☵; hexagram ䷜

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3 · kan3

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ham2 · ham3

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