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陨石坑

yǔn shí kēng

3-character word Traditional 隕石坑

What 陨石坑 means

1. meteorite impact crater

The characters in 陨石坑

• 陨yǔn(bound form) to fall from the sky; variant of 殒
• 石shírock; stone; stone inscription
• 坑kēngpit; hollow; depression; (mining) pit; shaft; tunnel; (literary) to bury alive

Example sentences

• 马尼夸根湖是加拿大魁北克的环形湖，是2亿年前一场巨大冲击形成的陨石坑遗迹。
  Mǎ ní kuā gēn hú shì Jiānádà Kuíběikè de huánxíng hú, shì 2 yì niánqián yī chǎng jùdà chōngjī xíngchéng de yǔnshíkēng yíjì.
  Lake Manicouagan, a ring-shaped lake in Quebec, Canada, is all that remains of a crater from a massive impact over 200 million years ago.