| | eye (CL: 隻|只, 雙|双) / (often used with 一) a look; a glance / small hole / (bound form) salient point / classifier for wells, cave-dwellings etc | HSK 2 |
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| | to block up (a road, pipe etc) / to stop up (a hole) / (fig.) (of a person) choked up with anxiety or stress / wall (literary) / (classifier for walls) | HSK 4 |
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| | leak / hole / gap / loophole | HSK 5 |
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| | cave / hole / zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers) / CL: 個|个 | HSK 5 |
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| | to drill / to bore / to get into / to make one's way into / to enter (a hole) / to thread one's way through / to study intensively / to dig into / to curry favor for personal gain | HSK 6 |
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| | (bound form) chisel / to bore a hole; to chisel; to dig / (literary) certain; authentic; irrefutable / also pr. [zuo4] | HSK 7-9 |
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| | hole / opening / cut / gap / gash / my husband or wife / classifier for people (used for indicating the number of people in a family etc) / precedent | HSK 7-9 |
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| | hole / pocket / cavity / loophole / debt | HSK 7-9 |
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| | hole / opening / orifice (of the human body) / (fig.) key (to the solution of a problem) | |
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| | cave / hole | |
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| | cave / cavity / hole / acupuncture point / Taiwan pr. [xue4] | |
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| | hole / CL: 個|个 / classifier for cave dwellings | |
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| | concave or convex / bumps and holes / uneven (surface) / rugged | |
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| | to bore a hole / to drill / drilled hole | |
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| | cave / hole | |
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| | to drill or bore a hole / to attract attention / conspicuous | |
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| | to punch a hole; to perforate / (medicine) perforation | |
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| | small hole in an object | |
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| | round hole | |
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| | puddle / water hole / sump | |
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| | copper coin (round with a square hole in the middle, used in former times in China) | |
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| | lit. to pull a snake from its hole / to expose a malefactor (idiom) | |
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| | to punch a hole | |
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| | to block (a road) / to plug (a hole) / to stop up | |
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| | jade tube with round hole and rectangular sides, used ceremonially in ancient times | |
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| | ear piercing hole; earring hole | |
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| | hole; hollow; depression / low-lying | |
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| | diameter of hole | |
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| | (astronomy) black hole | |
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| | to dig a hole | |
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| | (literary) hole; aperture / (anatomy) cavity; sinus | |
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| | cavity / hole | |
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| | bullet hole | |
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| | lit. an ant hole may cause the collapse of a great dike (idiom) / fig. huge damage may result from a moment's negligence | |
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| | ocarina / wind instrument consisting of an egg-shaped chamber with holes | |
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| | cave / hole | |
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| | (idiom) to make a story or theory consistent; to give a plausible explanation; to plug the holes in one's story | |
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| | hole in the ground to plant seeds in / to make a hole for seeds / to dibble | |
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| | bullet hole / shell hole | |
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| | hole (e.g. of sieve or colander) | |
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| | bamboo flute with 7 or 8 holes | |
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| | old variant of 坎 / pit / hole | |
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| | hole in ice / crevasse | |
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| | to extinguish a burning object / to singe sth with a smoldering object (e.g. burn a hole in one's trousers with a cigarette) / to stir-fry / to pour a mixture of hot oil and flavorings over food | |
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| | hole, pit | |
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| | to bore a hole / to give a forced interpretation | |
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| | heavily damaged / (fig.) full of holes / riddled with problems | |
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| | hole in a wall | |
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| | to withdraw / to hole up | |
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| | the hole in the center of a wheel accommodating the axle (archaic) | |
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| | aperture / hole / cavity | |
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| | eye / a hole in an implement or utensil for insertion | |
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| | lit. like a square peg in a round hole (idiom) / fig. incompatible | |
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| | ice spud (aka ice chisel) with a pointy tip / to break a hole in ice (for ice fishing etc) using an ice spud | |
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| | in a hole | |
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| | to fill up or cover up a hole | |
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| | bamboo flute with 8 holes | |
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| | dig a hole | |
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| | (coll., humorous) money (so named because in former times, Chinese coins had a square hole in the middle) | |
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| | to dig a hole / (fig.) to make things difficult for sb / (neologism) (slang) (of a writer) to start work on a new project | |
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| | a flat round jade ornament with a hole at the center / fig. a treasure | |
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| | male's pee hole | |
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| | to fill (gap, hole, area, blank) / to pad out / to complement / (dental) filling / filled | |
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| | (archaic) pit; hole in the ground / old variant of 陷 | |
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| | to widen a tube / to ream (i.e. widen a hole) | |
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| | (electronics) via (a type of hole in a circuit board) | |
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| | electron hole (physics) | |
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| | to drill a hole / drilling | |
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| | hole due to dental caries | |
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| | a hole | |
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| | (golf) hole in one | |
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| | white hole (cosmology) | |
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| | plughole / drainage hole | |
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| | hole puncher | |
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| | small hole | |
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| | plughole / drainage hole | |
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| | hole | |
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| | membrane which covers a hole in a flute and produces a buzzing tone | |
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| | lit. leave no hole undrilled (idiom); to latch on to every opportunity | |
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| | porous / having many holes (e.g. filter gauze or sieve) | |
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| | jade disk with a hole in the center | |
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| | electron hole (physics) | |
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| | hawsehole (small hole for anchor cable or hawser in the side of ship) | |
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| | round coin with a square hole in the middle, used in former times in China | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | hole in one (golf) | |
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| | (of a musical instrument) blow hole | |
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| | coin minted in the reign of Emperor Ling of Han 漢靈帝|汉灵帝, with a square hole in the middle and four lines radiating out from each corner of the square (hence the name 四出文) | |
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| | hole / pit / pothole | |
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| | A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (idiom); a stitch in time saves nine | |
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| | to punch a hole / to drill a hole / to dig a hole / to burrow | |
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| | liuqin lute, smaller version of the pipa 琵琶, with holes in the soundbox, and range similar to that of a violin | |
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| | slot / groove / slotted hole | |
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| | bleed hole / overflow pipe / spill vent | |
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| | shell crater; shell hole | |
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| | dog hole / gap caused by missing teeth / fig. den of thieves | |
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| | dog hole wide open (idiom); fig. gap caused by missing teeth (used mockingly) | |
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| | wicker door, hole window (idiom); fig. wretched hovel / living in poverty | |
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| | mouse hole | |
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| | earhole / ear piercing hole; earring hole | |
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