窟
Meanings
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- 1.cave
- 2.hole
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Wiktionary
- 1.cave; hole; cavity
- 2.den; lair; a place where a certain kind of people or things gather
- 3.depression; dip; hollow
- 4.Classifier for holes, cavities, or hollows.
- 5.house made of earth
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kʰluːd): semantic 穴 (“hole; cave”) + phonetic 屈 (OC *klud, *kʰlud).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
在墨西哥有很多貧民窟。
There are many slums in Mexico.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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Related words
窟窿 hole石窟 rock cave洞窟 a cave窟臀 buttocks (dialect)魔窟 lit. nest of devils莫高窟 Mogao caves in Dunhuang 敦煌, Gansu窟窿眼 small hole销金窟 money squandering establishment (e.g. gambling den, brothel etc)贫民窟 slum housing吴哥窟 Angkor Wat, temple complex in Cambodia狡兔三窟 lit. a crafty rabbit has three burrows四大石窟 the four great caves, namely: Longmen Grottoes 龙门石窟[Lóng mén Shí kū] at Luoyang, Henan, Yungang Caves 云冈石窟[Yún gāng Shí kū] at Datong, Shanxi, Mogao Caves 莫高窟[Mò gāo kū] at Dunhuang, Gansu, and Mt Maiji Caves 麦积山石窟[Mài jī Shān Shí kū] at Tianshui, Gansu