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穴

See also: 六 and 冘
穴 U+7A74, 穴
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7A74
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[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

Note:
  • huag8 - Shantou;
  • huêg8 - Chaozhou.
  • Wu
    • 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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