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
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khiân-khun / kiân-khun

---

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qiánkūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢˊ ㄎㄨㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ciánkun
    • Wade–Giles: chʻien²-kʻun¹
    • Yale: chyán-kwūn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyankuen
    • Palladius: цянькунь (cjanʹkunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn³⁵ kʰu̯ən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: kin⁴ kwan¹
    • Yale: kìhn kwān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kin⁴ kwan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: kin⁴ kuen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰiːn²¹ kʷʰɐn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khièn-khûn
    • Hakka Romanization System: kien^ˇ kun^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: kian² kun¹
    • Sinological IPA: /kʰi̯en¹¹ kʰun²⁴/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khiàn-khûn
    • Hakka Romanization System: kian^ˇ kun^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: kian² kun¹
    • Sinological IPA: /kʰi̯an¹¹ kʰun²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General 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

1. the ䷀ (qian) and ䷁ (kun) hexagrams from the I Ching
2. heaven and earth
3. the sun and the moon
4. the nation

Synonyms

• (heaven and earth): 天地 (tiāndì)

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
• 定乾坤 (dìng qiánkūn)
• 弄乾坤
• 扭轉乾坤 / 扭转乾坤 (niǔzhuǎnqiánkūn)
• 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: 乾坤(けんこん) (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 Hyōgai
kan'on	on'yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) けんこん [kèńkóń] (Heiban – [0])
• (Tokyo) けんこん [kéꜜǹkòǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [kẽ̞ŋkõ̞ɴ]

Noun

乾(けん)坤(こん) • (kenkon) 

1. the |||||| (qian) and ¦¦¦¦¦¦ (kun) hexagrams from the I Ching
2. heaven and earth

   Synonym: 天地 (tenchi)

3. yin-yang

   Synonym: 陰陽 (in'yō)

Derived terms

• 乾(けん)坤(こん)一(いっ)擲(てき) (kenkon itteki)

Korean

Hanja in this term
乾	坤

Noun

乾坤 • (geon'gon) (hangeul 건곤)

1. hanja form^? of 건곤 (“the |||||| (qian) and ¦¦¦¦¦¦ (kun) hexagrams from the I Ching”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
乾	坤

Noun

乾坤

1. chữ Hán form of càn khôn (“the |||||| (qian) and ¦¦¦¦¦¦ (kun) hexagrams from the I Ching”).