hole

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
穴 meaning component

  Meaning component

xué

  

cave

屈 sound component

  Sound component

  

bend

Definitions

 

hole, cave; cellar; underground; cave; hole

Most common words with 窟
Freq.
Word
Meaning

贫民窟

slum housing

cave

窟窿

hole

石窟

rock cave

洞窟

a cave

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[kʰ]ˤut

khwot

cave, hole


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.5469% of movies

2797th most common character in movies

2924th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+7A9F


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