| 坑 | 204C10 11A.70-6 | 部居  | 畫數 7 | ㄎㄥ [keng1] | ||
| N. | A pit, a sunken hole in ground: 土坑 a sunken pit; 糞坑，茅坑 sunken construction for manure, country-style water closet over an open pit; 煤坑 coal pit; 泥坑 quagmire; 水坑 pool of water; 火坑 fire pit; 跳火坑 undertake an impossible task, accept an extremely delicate job (likened to “jumping into a fire pit”); 墜入火坑 sink into prostitution; 跳出火坑 get out of prostitution or slave traffic | |||||
| V.t. | (1) To bury; to bury alive: 焚書坑儒 (of 秦始皇) burned books and buried Confucian scholars alive in gully. (2) Bring disaster, entrap in misery: 坑其民 (AC) bring disaster to his people; 坑害 brutally destroy; 坑人 [keng1ren2]↓. | |||||
| Words | 1. 坑道 [keng1dao4], n., (mil.) underground tunnel. 2. 坑坑窪窪 [keng1keng1wa1wa1], adj., (of road surface) full of bumps and holes. 3. 坑兒 [keng1er0], n., a depression, a pit; see [keng1zi0]↓. 4. 坑騙 [keng1pian4], v.t., to cheat by trickery, to swindle. 5. 坑人 [keng1ren2], v.i., (1) to lay trap for people; (2) to cause endless trouble: 你可把我坑苦了 you have got me into a fix; 這樣做，可坑死人了 it will kill me to do it this way; 才坑人哪 what a setup! 6. 坑子 [keng1zi0], n., (1) a pit, a small hole; (2) village water closet set up over an open pit. | |||||