乾坤

Chinese

		dry; clean; male dry; clean; male; strong; one of the Eight Trigrams; surname	the earth-; female-principle
simp. and trad. (乾坤)		乾	坤

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): qiánkūn

(Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄢˊ ㄎㄨㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): kin⁴ kwan¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): khièn-khûn / khiàn-khûn
Min Nan (POJ): khiân-khun / kiân-khun

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: qiánkūn
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢˊ ㄎㄨㄣ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyankuen
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn³⁵ kʰu̯ən⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: kin⁴ kwan¹
  - Yale: kìhn kwān
  - Cantonese Pinyin: kin⁴ kwan¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: kin⁴ kuen¹
  - IPA ^(key): /kʰiːn²¹ kʷʰɐn⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khièn-khûn
  - Hakka Romanization System: kienˇ kun´
  - Hagfa Pinyim: kian² kun¹
  - IPA: /kʰi̯en¹¹ kʰun²⁴/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khiàn-khûn
  - Hakka Romanization System: kianˇ kun´
  - Hagfa Pinyim: kian² kun¹
  - IPA: /kʰi̯an¹¹ kʰun²⁴/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khiân-khun
  - Tâi-lô: khiân-khun
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qienqwn
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰiɛn¹³⁻²² kʰun⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kʰiɛn²⁴⁻²² kʰun⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kʰiɛn²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰun⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰiɛn²³⁻³³ kʰun⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiân-khun
  - Tâi-lô: kiân-khun
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kienqwn
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kiɛn²⁴⁻²² kʰun³³/

Noun

乾坤

the ䷀ (qian) and ䷁ (kun) hexagrams from the I Ching
heaven and earth
the sun and the moon
the nation

Derived terms

乾坤一擲／乾坤一掷 (qiánkūnyīzhì)
乾坤再造／乾坤再造
壺裡乾坤／壶里乾坤
弄乾坤

扭轉乾坤／扭转乾坤
旋轉乾坤／旋转乾坤
浪蕩乾坤／浪荡乾坤
顛倒乾坤／颠倒乾坤

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (乾坤):

Japanese: 乾 (けん)坤 (こん) (kenkon)
Korean: 건곤 (乾坤, geon-gon)
Vietnamese: càn khôn (乾坤)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
乾	坤
けん Grade: S	こん Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

Noun

乾坤 (hiragana けんこん, rōmaji kenkon)

the |||||| (qian) and ¦¦¦¦¦¦ (kun) hexagrams from the I Ching
heaven and earth
yin-yang

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