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凼

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noun

Meanings

  1. 1 pool
  2. 2 pit
  3. 3 small pond (dialect)
  4. 4 manure pit

Examples

下过雨后，田里积了个水凼。
Xià guò yǔ hòu, tiánlǐ jī le gè shuǐdàng.
After the rain a puddle of water formed in the field.
村民挖了个粪凼来沤肥。
Cūnmín wā le gè fèndàng lái òuféi.
Villagers dug a pit to collect manure for fertilizer.

Tips

usage
凼 is a dialectal word for a small pit or pool of water, also written 氹. It often refers to a manure or compost pit in farming.

Components

radical
凵 kǎn
open box; hollow
The open-vessel radical 凵 forms the surrounding hollow that the water sits within, supplying the 'pit / basin' idea and serving as the indexing radical.
semantic
水 shuǐ
water
The water graph 水 sits inside the open-box radical 凵 (a hollow). Water held in a hollow pictures a small pool or pit, the meaning of 凼.

Stroke Order

凼 dàng