坑

Meaning

坑 centers on a hollow opening in the ground: a pit or hole, often man-made or natural.

• 坑道こうどう

  tunnel; (mining) gallery; level; shaft; pit

• 坑こう

  pit (esp. of a mine)

• 坑夫こうふ

  miner

• 廃坑はいこう

  closure of a mine; abandoned mine; disused mine

• 坑夫こうふ

  The Miner (1908 novel by Natsume Sōseki)

• 斜坑しゃこう

  inclined shaft

• 坑内こうない

  within a pit or (mine) shaft

• 坑口こうこう

  pithead; minehead

• ひ押し坑道ひおしこうどう

  drift (mining); driftway

• 入坑にゅうこう

  entrance into drift or pit

• 坑井こうせい

  winze (mining); well (oil, gas)

• 坑儒こうじゅ

  burying Confucian scholars alive

• 坑内事故こうないじこ

  mine accident

• 坑内掘りこうないぼり

  underground mining

• 坑内掘り炭鉱こうないぼりたんこう

  underground coal mine

• 坑外こうがい

  out of the pit

• 坑底こうてい

  mine-pit bottom

• 坑木こうぼく

  mine timbers

• 導坑どうこう

  pilot tunnel

• 岩塩坑がんえんこう

  salt mine

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