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垦

墾
kěn
verb #43,595

Meanings

  1. 1 to reclaim (wasteland); to bring under cultivation

Examples

移民开垦了大片荒地。
Yímín kāikěn le dàpiàn huāngdì.
The settlers reclaimed a large area of wasteland.
这一带以前是垦区。
Zhè yídài yǐqián shì kěnqū.
This area used to be a state farm reclamation zone.

Tips

usage
Usually bound: 开垦 (to open up wasteland), 垦荒 (to reclaim wild land), 垦殖 (to reclaim and cultivate). All are about turning untilled land into farmland.

Components

radical
土 tǔ
earth; soil
Bottom earth radical 土. Reclaiming land is working the soil, so 土 carries the meaning of 垦.
phonetic
艮 gèn
tough; the Gen trigram
Top 艮 supplies the sound (drifted to kěn). The same phonetic appears in 恳 (earnest) and 很 (very).

Stroke Order

垦 kěn