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HSK
leak / hole / gap / loophole
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *洞* | 洞* | *洞
cave / hole / zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers) / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
a hole
disturbing the privacy of bridal room (Chinese custom where guests banter with and play pranks on the newlyweds)
tunnel; cave; burrow; dugout
lienteric diarrhea (TCM)
cave; cavern
wind tunnel
lit. to see sth as clearly as one sees a blazing fire (idiom) / fig. to grasp the situation thoroughly
to penetrate / to pierce / to see clearly / to have an insight into
pierce
to clearly understand
cave / cavern
small hole in an object
bridal room and ornamented candles / wedding festivities (idiom)
cavity / empty / vacuous
place of charm and beauty / scenery of exceptional charm / completely different world
to see everything clearly
insight
to be wide open
Buddhist grottos
A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (idiom); a stitch in time saves nine
Dongting Lake in northeast Hunan province
hole in one (golf)
yaodong (a kind of cave dwelling in the Loess Plateau in northwest China) / CL:
Zhang Zhidong (1837-1909), prominent politician in late Qing
zero-day vulnerability (computing)
hole in ice / crevasse
ear piercing hole; earring hole
dog door
to see clearly
(of an argument, theory etc) full of flaws (idiom)
cave mouth / tunnel entrance
mouse hole
Rodong or Nodong, series of North Korean medium-range missiles
cave dwelling / legendary abode of immortals
to punch a hole / to drill a hole / to dig a hole / to burrow
tree hollow / (slang) anonymous platform for sharing secrets / (slang) confidant
passageway / archway
cavern
insight / to see clearly
hole / pit / pothole
wedding night
(astronomy) black hole
imaginative / to have one's mind buzzing with ideas
cave / natural cavern (in limestone)
a cave
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *洞* | 洞* | *洞
used in 洪洞, a county in Shanxi
to examine deeply / to inspect closely
pitch-dark
secret inner room / bridal room
Hongtong county in Linfen 臨汾|临汾, Shanxi
empty cave, nothing there (idiom); devoid of substance / nothing new to show
hole due to dental caries
paradise / heavenly or beautiful place / fairyland
(geology) solutional cave (typically, a limestone cave)
cave / pit / (coll.) greenhouse
Dongkou, a county in Shaoyang City 邵陽市|邵阳市, Hunan
air raid shelter; bomb shelter / (fig.) place that protects bad people; hideout
cavity / pit
Taepodong, North Korean rocket series
grotto
empty / hollow / lacking in substance
to bore / to burrow / to crawl through a tunnel
the Library Cave, a sealed cave (Cave 17) in the Mogao Caves 莫高窟, where thousands of manuscripts were discovered in 1900
Kezil thousand-Buddha grotto in Baicheng 拜城, Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区, Xinjiang
Crocs shoes (or any similar shoe)
olm (Proteus anguinus)
white hole (cosmology)
Lü Dongbin (796-), Tang Dynasty scholar, one of the Eight Immortals 八仙
tunnel
lit. to pull a snake from its hole / to expose a malefactor (idiom)
to dig a hole
cavern / cave
bottomless pit
(physics) wormhole
hole
to blow people's minds with highly imaginative, bizarre ideas
Hongtong county in Linfen 臨汾|临汾, Shanxi
electron hole (physics)
Kumutula thousand-Buddha grotto in Kuqa, Xinjiang
Renzidong palaeolithic archaeological site at Fanchang 繁昌, Anhui
a dog biting Lü Dongbin (idiom) / to ill reward a person's kindness
empty / deserted
(golf) hole in one
culvert
cave with a waterfall at its mouth
the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves, in the Turpan Basin, Xinjiang
variant of 涵洞


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