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垦

kěn

Character Traditional 墾

What 垦 means

1. to reclaim (land)
2. to cultivate

Words starting with 垦

• 垦丁Kěn dīngKenting, a national park on the southern tip of Taiwan, popular as a tourist destination…
• 垦殖kěn zhíto open up land for cultivation
• 垦耕kěn gēngto bring under cultivation (scrubland, marshland etc)
• 垦荒kěn huāngto open up land (for agriculture)
• 垦利区Kěn lì QūKenli, a district of Dongying City 东营市
• 垦丁国家公园Kěn dīng Guó jiā Gōng yuánKenting National Park on the Hengchun Peninsula 恒春半岛
• 垦利Kěn lìsee 垦利区

Words containing 垦

• 开垦kāi kěnto clear a wild area for cultivation; to put under the plow
• 围垦wéi kěnto reclaim land by diking
• 屯垦tún kěnto garrison troops to open up land
• 海涂围垦hǎi tú wéi kěntideland reclamation

Characters built on 艮

These share the phonetic component 艮 (gěn), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 很hěnvery; quite…
• 根gēnroot; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings
• 跟gēnheel; to follow closely; to go with
• 恨hènto hate; to regret
• 狠hěnruthless; fierce; ferocious; determined; resolute; to harden (one's heart)
• 痕hénscar; traces
• 恳kěnearnest
• 茛gènranunculus

Characters that look like 垦

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 显xiǎnto make visible; to reveal; prominent
• 皇huángemperor; old variant of 惶
• 妻qī(bound form) wife
• 臭chòustench; smelly; to smell (bad)
• 恳kěnearnest
• 昱yùbright light

Sounds the same

Read kěn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 肯to agree; to consent; to be willing to
• 恳earnest
• 啃to gnaw; to nibble; to bite
• 龈variant of 啃