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Character Decomposition
龛=合+龙
Etymology
dragon
Meanings
(bound form) niche; shrine
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Words with 龛 47 total
niche (in a wall)壁龛bì kānniche for statue (esp. Buddhist, Christian etc)佛龛fó kānshrine; niche; household shrine神龛shén kān(radiography) the shadow of a peptic ulcer in a barium-swallow X-ray龛影kān yǐngcolumbarium骨灰龛gǔ huī kānLongkan 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龙龛手鉴Lóng kān Shǒu jiàn
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