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- pit; hollow; depression
- (mining) pit; shaft; tunnel
- (literary) to bury alive
- (coll.) to cheat; to scam; to screw over
- to dig a hole
- (fig.) to make things difficult for sb
- (neologism) (slang) (of a writer) to start work on a new project
- Gukeng or Kukeng township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县[Yun2 lin2 xian4], Taiwan
- to get one's father involved in a difficult situation
- (vulgar) (of sth that makes one feel misled or let down etc) to be a big disappointment
- Tai Hang District, Hong Kong
- Dakeng, the name of several places in Taiwan, notably a scenic hilly area of Taichung 台中[Tai2 zhong1]
Trad. 古坑鄉
- Gukeng or Kukeng township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县[Yun2 lin2 xian4], Taiwan
Trad. 無底坑
- the bottomless pit (Hell in the Bible)
- pitless (elevator)
Trad. 深坑鄉
- Shenkeng township in New Taipei City 新北市[Xin1 bei3 shi4], Taiwan
Trad. 坑蒙拐騙
- (idiom) to swindle, scam and deceive
Trad. 滿坑滿谷
- (idiom) all over the place
- in every nook and cranny
- packed to the rafters
Trad. 焚書坑儒
- to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2])
- to dodge a pit only to fall into a well (idiom)
- out of the frying pan into the fire
- lit. to jump out of a fire pit (idiom); to escape from a living hell
- to free oneself from a life of torture
Trad. 墓坑夯土層
- layer filled with rammed earth in a tomb pit (archeology)
Trad. 茅坑裡點燈
- (slang) (fig.) to court death (derived from 找死[zhao3 si3] via its near homophone 照屎[zhao4 shi3])
Trad. 占著茅坑不拉屎
- lit. to occupy a latrine but not shit (proverb)
- fig. to be a dog in the manger
Trad. 一個蘿蔔一個坑
- lit. every turnip to its hole (idiom)
- fig. each person has his own position
- each to his own
- horses for courses
- every kettle has its lid
Trad. 跳出釜底進火坑
- out of the frying pan into the fire (idiom)