Dictionary › 茅坑

茅坑

máo kēng

2-character word

What 茅坑 means

1. latrine pit
2. latrine

The characters in 茅坑

• 茅máoreeds; rushes
• 坑kēngpit; hollow; depression; (mining) pit; shaft; tunnel; (literary) to bury alive

Words starting with 茅坑

• 茅坑里点灯máo kēng lǐ diǎn dēng(slang) (fig.) to court death (derived from 找死

Words containing 茅坑

• 占着茅坑不拉屎zhàn zhe máo kēng bù lā shǐlit. to occupy a latrine but not shit (proverb); fig. to be a dog in the manger

Sounds the same

Read máo kēng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 毛坑variant of 茅坑

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read máo kēng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.