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坤

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Pronunciation

Peng'im: kung1
POJ: khung
Variety: chaozhou

Meanings and usage

noun: earth (Yijing trigram, ☷), feminine principle
坤

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.

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