堑 (塹) qiàn

  1. qiàn noun moat around a city
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 护城河 (CC-CEDICT '塹'; Guoyu '塹' n 1; Unihan '塹')
  2. qiàn noun dangerous terrain
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '塹' n 2)
  3. qiàn noun a difficulty
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 困难 (Guoyu '塹' n 3)
  4. qiàn verb to dig a trench
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '塹' v)
  5. qiàn noun moat; parikhā
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: parikhā, Japanese: zan, or: sen (BCSD '塹', p. 302; MW 'mṛtagṛha'; Unihan '塹')

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