坤
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Pronunciation
Peng'im: kung1
POJ: khung
Variety: chaozhou
POJ: khung
Variety: chaozhou
Meanings and usage
noun: earth (Yijing trigram, ☷), feminine principle
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The Teochew reading covers both a cosmological noun sense ('earth', the trigram/hexagram in Yijing) and an adjective sense ('feminine, female'); the noun sense was chosen as primary but the page does not clearly separate usage contexts for the two.