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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
tunnel; cave; burrow; dugout
cave; cavern
pierce
small hole in an object
cavity / empty / vacuous
Buddhist grottos
passageway / archway
bottomless pit
cave holding scripture depository, part of Mogao cave complex 莫高窟, Dunhuang 敦煌
zero-day vulnerability (computing)
cave / natural cavern (in limestone)
hole in ice / crevasse
ear piercing hole; earring hole
dog door
mouse hole
(physics) wormhole
to punch a hole / to drill a hole / to dig a hole / to burrow
hole due to dental caries
cavern
yaodong (a kind of cave dwelling in the Loess Plateau in northwest China) / CL:
hole / pit / pothole
(astronomy) black hole
(golf) hole in one
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *洞* | 洞* | *洞
used in 洪洞, a county in Shanxi
pitch-dark
to bore / to burrow / to crawl through a tunnel
Zhang Zhidong (1837-1909), prominent politician in late Qing
wind tunnel
tree hollow / (slang) anonymous platform for sharing secrets / (slang) confidant
(geology) solutional cave (typically, a limestone cave)
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
white hole (cosmology)
tunnel
hole in one (golf)
lit. to pull a snake from its hole / to expose a malefactor (idiom)
to dig a hole
cavern / cave
Kezil thousand-Buddha grotto in Baicheng 拜城, Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区, Xinjiang
cave with a waterfall at its mouth
Hongtong county in Linfen 臨汾|临汾, Shanxi
electron hole (physics)
Renzidong palaeolithic archaeological site at Fanchang 繁昌, Anhui
empty / deserted
Kumutula thousand-Buddha grotto in Kuqa, Xinjiang
to blow people's minds with highly imaginative, bizarre ideas
culvert
Rodong or Nodong, series of North Korean medium-range missiles
the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves, in the Turpan Basin, Xinjiang
variant of 涵洞


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