| 壑 | |||
| bed of torrent, narrow ravine | |||
| Radical | 土 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 14 | Total Strokes | 17 |
| Mandarin reading | hè huò | Cantonese reading | kok3 |
| Japanese on reading | gaku kaku | Japanese kun reading | tani |
| Korean reading | hak | Vietnamese reading | hác |
| 壑 | |||
| bed of torrent, narrow ravine | |||
| Radical | 土 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 14 | Total Strokes | 17 |
| Mandarin reading | hè huò | Cantonese reading | kok3 |
| Japanese on reading | gaku kaku | Japanese kun reading | tani |
| Korean reading | hak | Vietnamese reading | hác |
| 壑沟 | [ hè goū ] ditch, narrow strip of water, moat |
| ⇒ 以邻为壑 | [ yǐ lín weí hè ] to use one's neighbor as a drain, to shift one's problems onto others (idiom) |
| ⇒ 欲壑难填 | [ yù hè nán tián ] bottomless pit of desire (idiom); insatiable greed, carnal cravings are never satisfied and are a main obstruction on the path to enlightenment |
| ⇒ 渊壑 | [ yuān hè ] deep valley |
| ⇒ 沟壑 | [ goū hè ] gorge, gulch, ravine, deep ditch |
| ⇒ 涧壑 | [ jiàn hè ] valley, ravine |