龛
Ancient forms
2 formsGlyphs: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Meaning
kān kan1
- (bound form) niche; shrine
Words with 龛
- 神龛 shénkān shrine; niche; household shrine
- 龛影 kānyǐng (radiography) the shadow of a peptic ulcer in a barium-swallow X-ray
- 佛龛 fókān niche for statue (esp. Buddhist, Christian etc)
- 壁龛 bìkān niche (in a wall)
- 骨灰龛 gǔhuīkān columbarium
- 龙龛手鉴 LóngkānShǒujiàn Longkan Shoujian, Chinese character dictionary from 997 AD containing 26,430 entries, with radicals placed into 240 rhyme groups and arranged according to the four tones, and the rest of the characters similarly arranged under each radical