穴

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

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
穴-order.gif

Han character[edit]

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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 characters[edit]

References[edit]

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

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 穴

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 穴
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
穴-seal.svg 穴-bigseal.svg
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.

Pronunciation[edit]

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/

    Definitions[edit]

    穴

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

    Synonyms[edit]

    • (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 Hokkien) 空
    Chaozhou 空
    Wu Suzhou 洞
    Wenzhou 洞, 窟, 窟窿
    Xiang Changsha 洞, 洞子
    Shuangfeng 眼貢, 洞

    Compounds[edit]

    References[edit]

    Japanese[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    穴

    (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

    1. hole, opening

    Readings[edit]

    Compounds[edit]

    Compounds


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

    Etymology 1[edit]

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    穴(あな) • (ana) 

    1. hole
      靴(くつ)下(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
    Synonyms[edit]

    Etymology 2[edit]

    For pronunciation and definitions of 穴 – see the following entry.
    【けつ】
    [noun] ass; arse; buttocks
    [noun] last or hindermost part
    (This term, 穴, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

    References[edit]

    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

    Korean[edit]

    Hanja[edit]

    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

    Synonyms[edit]

    Compounds[edit]

    Vietnamese[edit]

    Han character[edit]

    穴 (huyệt)

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