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塹

qiàn

moat, trench, pit, cavity

Strokes
14
Radical
土
HSK
—
Tone
4

Simplified form: 堑

Stroke order

Our word list and example sentences are in simplified characters. Everything below is for 堑, the simplified form of 塹. We do not have a traditional-script corpus to draw the words from, so they are shown as they are written in simplified Chinese.

Example sentences

  • 吃一堑长一智。

    Chī yī qiàn cháng yī zhì

    A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words containing 堑

Our simplified corpus has no words containing 堑 either.