| kǎn | pit/threshold |
| 坎 | pit threshold one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦 |
| 坎伯兰 | Cumberland |
| 坎佩切 | Campeche |
| 坎儿 | critical juncture key moment |
| 坎儿井 | karez, qanat or "horizontal well" (irrigation and water management system used in Xinjiang, Central Asia and Middle East) |
| 坎农 | cannon |
| 坎土曼 | mattock used by the Uygur nationality |
| 坎坎 | (dialect) just now |
| 坎坷 | bumpy (of a road) rough (of life) to be down on one's luck |
| 坎坷不平 | pot-holed and bumpy road (idiom); fig. full of disappointment and dashed hopes |
| 坎坷多舛 | full of trouble and misfortune (usu. referring to someone's life) |
| 坎城影展 | Cannes Film Festival |
| 坎培拉 | Canberra (the capital of Australia) |
| 坎塔布连 | Cantabria in north Spain Spanish Basque country |
| 坎塔布连山脉 | Cantabrian mountain range in north Spain dividing Asturias from Castilla-Leon |
| 坎塔布连海 | Bay of Biscay (Spanish: Mare Cantabrico) |
| 坎壈 | to meet with misfortune |
| 坎大哈 | Kandahar (town in Southern Afghanistan) |
| 坎大哈省 | Kandahar province of Afghanistan |
| 坎子 | raised ground bank |