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kùn to trap / to surround / hard-pressed / stranded / destitute
kùn sleepy / tired
kǔn a bunch / to tie together / bundle
kǔn variant of 捆[kun3]
kūn one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing earth / female principle / ☷ / ancient Chinese compass point: 225° (southwest)
kūn used in place names, notably Kunlun Mountains 崑崙|昆仑[Kun1 lun2] / (also used for transliteration)
kūn descendant / elder brother / a style of Chinese poetry
kūn see 鵾雞|鹍鸡[kun1ji1]
kūn fry (newly hatched fish) / legendary giant fish that could transform into a giant bird 鵬|鹏[Peng2]
鲲鹏 kūn péng kun 鯤|鲲[kun1] and peng 鵬|鹏[Peng2], mythological beasts / peng, a gigantic bird transformed from the kun
截拳道 jié quán dào Jeet Kun Do or Way of the Intercepting Fist, a fusion of Eastern and Western martial arts led by Bruce Lee 李小龍|李小龙[Li3 Xiao3 long2]
kūn variant of 坤[kun1]
kūn steel sword
kūn quinone (chemistry)
kūn variant of 崑|昆[kun1]
kūn (jade)
kūn brilliant
kūn variant of 褌|裈[kun1]
kǔn palace corridor / fig. women's quarters / women
游锡堃 Yóu kūn Yu Shyi-kun (1948-) Taiwanese politician
kǔn sincere
kǔn threshold / inner appartments / woman / wife (honorific)
kūn scalping / to make the head bald (as corporal punishment)
kūn beautiful jade / bamboo
训读 xùn a reading of a written Chinese word derived from a synonym (typically, a vernacular synonym) (e.g. in Mandarin, 投子[tou2 zi5] may be pronounced as its synonym 色子[shai3 zi5], and in Wu dialects, 二 is pronounced as its synonym 兩|两 "liahn") / to pronounce a word using such a reading / (Japanese linguistics) kun-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from a native Japanese word that matches its meaning rather than from the pronunciation of the character in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: A kun-reading of a character is distinguished from its on-reading(s) 音讀|音读[yin1 du2]. For example, 山 has a kun-reading "yama" and an on-reading "san".)


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