| 塹 | |||
| moat, trench, pit, cavity | |||
| Radical | 土 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 11 | Total Strokes | 14 |
| Mandarin reading | qiàn | Cantonese reading | cim3 |
| Japanese on reading | zan sen | Japanese kun reading | hori |
| Korean reading | cham | Vietnamese reading | |
| Simplified Variant(s) | 堑 | ||
| Semantic Variant(s) | 壍 | ||
| 塹 | [ qiàn ] moat around a city |
| ⇒ 吃一塹，長一智 | [ chī yī qiàn zhǎng yī zhì ] Fall into the moat and you'll be wiser next time (idiom); One only learns from one's mistakes. |
| ⇒ 地塹 | [ dì qiàn ] trench, rift valley |
| ⇒ 東非大地塹 | [ dōng feī dà dì qiàn ] Great East African rift valley |
| ⇒ 路塹 | [ lù qiàn ] (civil engineering) cutting (for a railway or highway) |