Pinyin Syllable

Chinese characters pronounced keng

Learn common Chinese characters pronounced keng, including 坑 kēng. Compare tones, meanings, traditional forms, words, and example sentences.

How to Pronounce This Syllable

To say keng, release air on the aspirated k, glide into eng, and ride the tone — keep it joined as one sound.

Start the syllable on the initial k, then run straight into the final eng — keep them joined instead of sounding out separate English letters.

eng is farther back than en.

Only one common character is read keng (坑 kēng) — focus on locking in its tone.

keng turns up here with 1 different tone; a change of tone usually means a different character, so the groups below are split by tone.

Taking the 1st tone here: 坑 (1 in total). Lock this tone in your ear before the meaning.

Seeing keng inside whole words makes it clear which character is meant — here are common ones.

1 common character in this group.