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  *洞* | 洞* | *洞
cave / hole / zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers) / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
leak / hole / gap / loophole
HSK 5
grotto
insight / to see clearly
(of an argument, theory etc) full of flaws (idiom)
(physics) wormhole
to penetrate / to pierce / to see clearly / to have an insight into
cavern / cave
small hole in an object
empty cave, nothing there (idiom); devoid of substance / nothing new to show
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *洞* | 洞* | *洞
used in 洪洞, a county in Shanxi
cavity / empty / vacuous
cave / natural cavern (in limestone)
a cave
paradise / heavenly or beautiful place / fairyland
cave / cavern
mouse hole
ear piercing hole; earring hole
cave dwelling / legendary abode of immortals
secret inner room / bridal room
passageway / archway
yaodong (a kind of cave dwelling in the Loess Plateau in northwest China) / CL:
(astronomy) black hole
cavern
tunnel; cave; burrow; dugout
cave; cavern
place of charm and beauty / scenery of exceptional charm / completely different world
to dig a hole
bridal room and ornamented candles / wedding festivities (idiom)
bottomless pit
cave / pit / (coll.) greenhouse
to be wide open
to clearly understand
Dongkou county in Shaoyang 邵陽|邵阳, Hunan
cave mouth / tunnel entrance
lit. to pull a snake from its hole / to expose a malefactor (idiom)
(geology) solutional cave (typically, a limestone cave)
pitch-dark
lit. to see sth as clearly as one sees a blazing fire (idiom) / fig. to grasp the situation thoroughly
hole in ice / crevasse
tree hollow / (slang) anonymous platform for sharing secrets / (slang) confidant
lienteric diarrhea (TCM)
wind tunnel
Hongtong county in Linfen 臨汾|临汾, Shanxi
pierce
imaginative / to have one's mind buzzing with ideas
insight
to bore / to burrow / to crawl through a tunnel
Hongtong county in Linfen 臨汾|临汾, Shanxi
electron hole (physics)
disturbing the privacy of bridal room (Chinese custom where guests banter with and play pranks on the newlyweds)
a dog biting Lü Dongbin (idiom) / to ill reward a person's kindness
air raid shelter; bomb shelter / (fig.) place that protects bad people; hideout
hole due to dental caries
Crocs shoes (or any similar shoe)
dog door
tunnel
a hole
Zhang Zhidong (1837-1909), prominent politician in late Qing
(golf) hole in one
to see everything clearly
Dongting Lake in northeast Hunan province
white hole (cosmology)
Buddhist grottos
to examine deeply / to inspect closely
Kezil thousand-Buddha grotto in Baicheng 拜城, Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区, Xinjiang
Dongkou county in Shaoyang 邵陽|邵阳, Hunan
to blow people's minds with highly imaginative, bizarre ideas
hole
cave with a waterfall at its mouth
olm (Proteus anguinus)
empty / hollow / lacking in substance
Renzidong palaeolithic archaeological site at Fanchang 繁昌, Anhui
hole in one (golf)
cavity / pit
variant of 涵洞
Lü Dongbin (796-), Tang Dynasty scholar, one of the Eight Immortals 八仙
hole / pit / pothole
Taepodong, North Korean rocket series
A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (idiom); a stitch in time saves nine
Kumutula thousand-Buddha grotto in Kuqa, Xinjiang
to punch a hole / to drill a hole / to dig a hole / to burrow
the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves, in the Turpan Basin, Xinjiang
to see clearly
wedding night
culvert
empty / deserted
cave holding scripture depository, part of Mogao cave complex 莫高窟, Dunhuang 敦煌
Rodong or Nodong, series of North Korean medium-range missiles
zero-day vulnerability (computing)


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