Freq. Frequency Top 100,000 Kanji 坤 divination sign, land, earth Related words 乾けん 乾 is the complementary trigram representing heaven, the creative, and the masculine principle, often paired with 坤 in I Ching discussions.
Word family heaven and earth; the universe · trigrams Qian and Kun (I Ching) · yin and yang · northwest and southwest
Earth; the world
the way of the earth; the principle of the earth · the way of women; the path women should follow
Kun (hexagram 2 of the I Ching: earth, the receptive)
Written forms 坤こん
Standard kanji for this I Ching trigram.
こん Usage 100%
Etymology From Chinese 坤 (kūn), used in the I Ching to denote the receptive, earth principle. The reading こん is the Sino-Japanese on'yomi.
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