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砍

kǎn

HSK 5 Character

What 砍 means

1. to chop
2. to cut down
3. to throw sth at sb

Example sentences

• 他砍倒树。
  He felled the tree.
• 她很善于砍价。
  Tā hěn shànyú kǎnjià.
  She's good at bargaining the price down.
• 很多树被砍倒。
  A lot of trees were cut down.
• 还要花能量砍掉。
  It still costs energy to chop it off.
• 汤姆砍了他门前的树。
  Tāngmǔ kǎn le tā ménqián de shù.
  Tom cut down the tree that was in front of his house.
• 他在花园里砍了一棵树。
  He cut down a tree in his garden.

Words starting with 砍

• 砍死kǎn sǐto hack to death; to kill with an ax
• 砍伐kǎn fáto hew; to cut down
• 砍刀kǎn dāomachete
• 砍伤kǎn shāngto wound with a blade or hatchet; to slash; to gash
• 砍断kǎn duànto chop off
• 砍价kǎn jiàto bargain; to cut or beat down a price
• 砍树kǎn shùto chop wood; to chop down trees
• 砍杀kǎn shāto attack with a bladed weapon
• 砍头kǎn tóuto decapitate; to behead
• 砍头不过风吹帽kǎn tóu bù guò fēng chuī màoto regard decapitation as no more important than the wind blowing off your hat (idiom)
• 砍大山kǎn dà shānvariant of 侃大山

Words containing 砍

• 滥砍滥伐làn kǎn làn fáwanton destruction of forested lands
• 磨刀不误砍柴工mó dāo bù wù kǎn chái gōnglit. sharpening the axe won't make the wood-splitting take longer (idiom)…

Characters built on 欠

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

• 坎kǎnpit; threshold; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦
• 歛hānto desire; to give

Characters that look like 砍

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

• 政zhèngpolitical; politics; government
• 欧ōuohm (abbr. for 欧姆; euro (abbr. for 欧元; used in transliteration
• 软ruǎnsoft; flexible
• 校xiào(bound form) school; college; (bound form; military) field officer
• 破pòbroken; damaged; worn out
• 耽dānto indulge in; to delay

Sounds the same

Read kǎn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 侃upright and honest; cheerful; to chat idly
• 坎pit; threshold; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦
• 槛door sill; threshold
• 莰camphane C10H18
• 凵receptacle
• 欿discontented with oneself
• 𫐘used in 轗軻
• 顑yellow
• 歁unsatisfied (of eating)
• 嵌see 赤嵌楼
• 崁see 赤崁楼