穴居人
Chinese edit
to live in caves | man; person; people | ||
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trad. (穴居人) | 穴居 | 人 | |
simp. #(穴居人) | 穴居 | 人 |
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
穴居人
Japanese edit
Kanji in this term | ||
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穴 | 居 | 人 |
けつ > けっ Grade: 6 |
きょ Grade: 5 |
じん Grade: 1 |
kan’on |
Etymology edit
By surface analysis, 穴 (ketsu, “hole”) + 居 (kyo, “live, reside”) + 人 (jin, “person”), literally “hole-dwelling person”. Maybe Middle Chinese. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.