Cojak

Hanzi Character Search: 坷

5777

 
clod of earth, lump of soil
Radical
Strokes (without radical) 5 Total Strokes 8
Mandarin reading Cantonese reading ho1 ho2
Japanese on reading ka Japanese kun reading
Korean reading ka Vietnamese reading

CEDICT Entries:

   [ ]    uneven (path), unfortunate (in life)
   [ ]    (dialect) clod (of earth)
⇒    [ mìng kǎn ]    to have a tough life, to meet much adversity in one's life
⇒    [ kǎn ]    bumpy (of a road), rough (of life), to be down on one's luck, to be full of frustrations and dashed hopes
⇒    [ kǎn píng ]    potholed and bumpy road (idiom); fig. full of disappointment and dashed hopes
⇒    [ kǎn duō chuǎn ]    full of trouble and misfortune (usu. referring to someone's life)

RSS