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穴

See also: 六 and 冘
穴 U+7A74, 穴
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7A74
← 穳
[U+7A73] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 穵 →
[U+7A75]

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TranslingualEdit

Stroke order
 

Han characterEdit

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Radical 116 穴

穴 (radical 116, 穴+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 十金 (JC), four-corner 30802, composition ⿱宀八)

  1. Kangxi radical #116, ⽳.

Derived charactersEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • KangXi: page 862, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25406
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1288, character 37
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2718, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7A74

ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.
 穴

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 穴
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
   
Characters in the same phonetic series (穴) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
泬 *qʰʷliːɡ
坹 *qʰʷliːɡ, *ɡʷliːɡ
穴 *ɡʷliːɡ
袕 *ɡʷliːɡ, *ɢʷjiɡ
鴪 *ɢʷiɡ

Pictogram (象形)—possibly an entrance to a cave or a door flap.

PronunciationEdit

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 穴
Mandarin Beijing /ɕyɛ⁵¹/
/ɕyɛ³⁵/
Harbin /ɕyɛ⁵³/
Tianjin /ɕye⁵³/
Jinan /ɕyə⁴²/
Qingdao /ɕyə⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ɕyɛ⁴²/
Xi'an /ɕiɛ²⁴/
Xining /ɕi²⁴/
Yinchuan /ɕye¹³/
Lanzhou /ɕyə¹³/
Ürümqi /ɕyɤ²¹³/
Wuhan /ɕye²¹³/ 新
/ɕie²¹³/ 舊
Chengdu /ɕie³¹/
Guiyang /ɕie²¹/
Kunming /ɕiɛ³¹/
Nanjing /ɕyeʔ⁵/
Hefei /ɕyɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕyəʔ⁵⁴/
Pingyao /ɕyʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /ɕyaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /ɦioʔ¹/
/ɦyɪʔ¹/
Suzhou /ɦyəʔ³/
Hangzhou /ɦyəʔ²/
Wenzhou /jy²¹³/
Hui Shexian /ɕye²²/
Tunxi /ɕyɛ⁵/
Xiang Changsha /ɕie²⁴/
Xiangtan /t͡ɕʰyæ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /ɕyɵʔ²/
Hakka Meixian /hiat̚⁵/
Taoyuan /hiet̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jyt̚²/
Nanning /yt̚²²/
Hong Kong /jyt̚²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hiat̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /hieʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xiɛ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /huak̚⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /hit̚³/
Rime
Character 穴
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 屑 (88)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 胡決切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɦwet̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɦʷet̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɣuɛt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɦwɛt̚/
Li
Rong 		/ɣuet̚/
Wang
Li 		/ɣiwet̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ɣiwet̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xué
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 穴
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		xué
Middle
Chinese 		‹ hwet ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[ɢ]ʷˁi[t]/
English cave, pit

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 穴
Reading # 1/1
No. 14092
Phonetic
component 		穴
Rime
group 		質
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		穴
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡʷliːɡ/

DefinitionsEdit

穴

  1. hole
  2. grave (pit)
  3. cave; cavern
  4. (figuratively) lair; den
  5. (traditional Chinese medicine) acupoint

SynonymsEdit

  • (hole):
Dialectal synonyms of 孔 (“hole”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 孔、洞、穴
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 孔、洞、孔洞、空洞、空穴
Mandarin Beijing 窟窿
Jinan 窟窿
Xi'an 窟窿子、窟窿
Wuhan 窟窿、窟眼、洞洞、洞
Chengdu 窟窿、洞洞、洞
Yangzhou 洞
Hefei 窟窿、洞
Cantonese Guangzhou 窿、咕窿
Hong Kong 窿、咕窿
Gan Nanchang 洞
Hakka Meixian 窿仔、窿空仔
Jin Taiyuan 窟窿、窟子
Min Bei Jian'ou 川
Min Dong Fuzhou 空空
Min Nan Xiamen 空、空口
Quanzhou 空
Zhangzhou 空口
Taipei 空
Philippines (Manila) 空
Chaozhou 空
Wu Suzhou 洞
Wenzhou 洞、窟、窟窿
Xiang Changsha 洞
Shuangfeng 眼貢、洞

CompoundsEdit

ReferencesEdit

JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

穴

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. hole, opening

ReadingsEdit

CompoundsEdit

Compounds


Kanji in this term
穴
あな
Grade: 6
kun’yomi

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

穴 (hiragana あな, rōmaji ana)

  1. hole
    靴下 (くつした)に穴 (あな)が開 (あ)いた。
    Kutsushita ni ana ga aita.
    My socks got a hole in them.
    (literally, “A hole opened up in my socks.”)
  2. opening, aperture
  3. pit
  4. cave, cavern
  5. lair, den, burrow
  6. loss, deficit
  7. flaw, defect

SynonymsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

穴 (eumhun 구멍 혈 (gumeong hyeol))

  1. (구멍 혈, gumeong-): hole, hollow
  2. (구덩이 혈, gudeong'i-): pit, ditch
  3. (굴 혈, gul-): cave, cavern, cavity; den, burrow, sett
  4. (움 혈, um-): dugout

SynonymsEdit

CompoundsEdit

VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

穴 (huyệt)

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