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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 坎坷

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
坎坷 kǎn kě - (of a road) bumpy; (of life) rough; to be down on one's luck; to be full of frustrations and dashed hopes

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 16,353 12,672 6,987

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
kǎn- pit
- threshold
- one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing water
- ☵
kǎn- old variant of 坎[kan3]
- pit
- hole
- used in 坷垃[ke1la1]
- used in 坎坷[kan3ke3]

Other Words Containing 坎坷

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
坎坷 - - 16,353 12,672 6,987
坎坷不平 - - 94,300 92,905 69,021