穴

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/穴

Glyph origin
&mdash;possibly an entrance to a cave or a door flap.

Definitions

 * 1) hole
 * 2) grave
 * 3) cave; cavern
 * 4)  den; nest; lair
 * 5)  acupoint

Synonyms




Kanji

 * 1) hole, opening

Compounds

 * : conger eel
 * : pressure points
 * : the six holes of the human body, which are the mouth, eyes, ears, nose, anus, and genitals
 * : pressure points
 * : the six holes of the human body, which are the mouth, eyes, ears, nose, anus, and genitals
 * : pressure points
 * : the six holes of the human body, which are the mouth, eyes, ears, nose, anus, and genitals
 * : pressure points
 * : the six holes of the human body, which are the mouth, eyes, ears, nose, anus, and genitals
 * : pressure points
 * : the six holes of the human body, which are the mouth, eyes, ears, nose, anus, and genitals
 * : pressure points
 * : the six holes of the human body, which are the mouth, eyes, ears, nose, anus, and genitals
 * : pressure points
 * : the six holes of the human body, which are the mouth, eyes, ears, nose, anus, and genitals
 * : pressure points
 * : the six holes of the human body, which are the mouth, eyes, ears, nose, anus, and genitals
 * : pressure points
 * : the six holes of the human body, which are the mouth, eyes, ears, nose, anus, and genitals
 * : pressure points
 * : the six holes of the human body, which are the mouth, eyes, ears, nose, anus, and genitals
 * : pressure points
 * : the six holes of the human body, which are the mouth, eyes, ears, nose, anus, and genitals
 * : pressure points
 * : the six holes of the human body, which are the mouth, eyes, ears, nose, anus, and genitals
 * : pressure points
 * : the six holes of the human body, which are the mouth, eyes, ears, nose, anus, and genitals
 * : pressure points
 * : the six holes of the human body, which are the mouth, eyes, ears, nose, anus, and genitals
 * : pressure points
 * : the six holes of the human body, which are the mouth, eyes, ears, nose, anus, and genitals
 * : pressure points
 * : the six holes of the human body, which are the mouth, eyes, ears, nose, anus, and genitals
 * : pressure points
 * : the six holes of the human body, which are the mouth, eyes, ears, nose, anus, and genitals
 * : pressure points
 * : the six holes of the human body, which are the mouth, eyes, ears, nose, anus, and genitals
 * : pressure points
 * : the six holes of the human body, which are the mouth, eyes, ears, nose, anus, and genitals
 * : pressure points
 * : the six holes of the human body, which are the mouth, eyes, ears, nose, anus, and genitals
 * : the six holes of the human body, which are the mouth, eyes, ears, nose, anus, and genitals
 * : the six holes of the human body, which are the mouth, eyes, ears, nose, anus, and genitals
 * : the six holes of the human body, which are the mouth, eyes, ears, nose, anus, and genitals
 * : the six holes of the human body, which are the mouth, eyes, ears, nose, anus, and genitals
 * : the six holes of the human body, which are the mouth, eyes, ears, nose, anus, and genitals
 * : the six holes of the human body, which are the mouth, eyes, ears, nose, anus, and genitals

Etymology 1
From, from.

First attested in the  of 712.

Noun

 * 1) hole
 * 2) opening, aperture
 * 3) pit
 * 4) cave, cavern
 * 5) lair, den, burrow
 * 6) loss, deficit
 * 7) flaw, defect
 * 1) lair, den, burrow
 * 2) loss, deficit
 * 3) flaw, defect
 * 1) loss, deficit
 * 2) flaw, defect
 * 1) flaw, defect

Hanja

 * 1) (구멍 혈, gumeong-): hole, hollow
 * 2) (구덩이 혈, gudeong'i-): pit, ditch
 * 3) (굴 혈, gul-): cave, cavern, cavity; den, burrow, sett
 * 4) (움 혈, um-): dugout

Synonyms

 * (공, gong) hole
 * (갱, gaeng) pit
 * (호, ho) moat, ditch, trench, channel
 * (굴, gul) cave, den, burrow, tunnel

Compounds

 * 穴居人 (혈거인, hyeolgeoin) cave dweller