English
- pit, hole
- pit
- mahjong jargon; a meld: the combination of 3 tiles into a set, can be a Chow (3 sequential tiles of the same suit) or a Pong (3 same tiles of the same suit). In Guangdong mahjong, once you gathered 4 melds and a pair of eyes, you can claim a winning / going mahjong.
- snare, trap
- threshold
- crisis
- one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing water
- trigram ☵
- ☵
- hexagram ䷜
- classifier for plants in context of seeding
粵語
- 麻雀術語;三隻牌合成一組,可以以上(三隻同色順序牌)或碰(三隻同色同字牌)嘅形式組合。喺廣東牌儲夠四簡再加一對眼就食糊。
- 植物嘅量詞,講種植嘅時候用
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 坎
- 坎坷ham1 ho1
(of a road) bumpy; (of life) rough; to be down on one's luck; to be full of frustrations and dashed hopes
- 門坎mun4 ham2
variant of 門檻|门槛[men2 kan3]
- 土坎tou2 ham2
earthen levee
- 暗坎am3 kaan2
(in mahjong) concealed Pong (i.e. three identical tiles not acquired through melding)
- 坎坎ham2 ham2
(dialect) just now
- 坎坎ham2 ham2
(dialect) just now
- 坎肩ham2 gin1
sleeveless jacket (usually cotton)
- 坎培拉ham2 pui4 laai1
Canberra, capital of Australia (Tw)
- 坎德拉ham3 dak1 laai1
candela (unit of luminosity)
- 心坎sam1 ham2
bottom of one's heart
- 坎子ham2 zi2
raised ground
- 坎城ham2 sing4
(Tw) Cannes, France
- 坎兒ham2 ji4
critical juncture
- 田坎tin4 ham2
embankment between fields
- 坑坎haang1 ham2
uneven (road)
- 赤坎cek3 ham2
see 赤坎區|赤坎区[Chi4 kan3 Qu1]
- 尤坎jau4 ham2
Rjukan (city in Norway)
- 坎昆ham2 kwan1
Cancún
- 坎頭埋牆ham2 tau2 maai4 coeng5
to bang one's head against the wall [colloquial]
- 坎貝爾ham2 bui3 ji5
Campbell (name)
- 坎坎糊kaan2 kaan2 wu2
mahjong jargoon; a kind of all triplets hand (All-pong hand) but going mahjong with all hidden Pongs.
- 坎坎糊kaan2 kaan2 wu2
mahjong jargoon; a kind of all triplets hand (All-pong hand) but going mahjong with all hidden Pongs.
- 坎坷不平ham1 ho2 bat1 ping4
potholed and bumpy road (idiom); fig. full of disappointment and dashed hopes
- 秧坎joeng1 ham2