Kanji1 / 5
穴 kanji
hole, aperture, slit, cave, den
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
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On readings
ケツ
Kun readings
あな
Words with 穴
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —墓穴Populargrave (pit)
- —穴ass; arse; buttocks; rear; end; acupuncture point; hole; notch
- —穴居cave dwelling; troglodytism
- —虎穴lion's den; very dangerous place or situation; tiger's den
- —同穴being buried in the same grave
- —点穴pressure points (e.g. for application of moxa); vulnerable body cavities
- —金穴gold mine; provider of funds; financial supporter; patron; rich person
- —経穴acupuncture point
- —風穴cave from which cold wind blows
- —穴隙crevice; aperture
- —空穴flat or stone broke
- —甌穴giant's kettle; giant's cauldron; pothole
- —暗穴dark hole; idiot; fool; road taken by a Chinese ajari buddhist monk when he incurred the wrath of emperor Genso (685-762)
- —鼻穴nostril
- —一穴one hole; toilet bowl (for both urination and defecation); effective point for moxibustion; one-woman man
- —竜穴dragon's den; auspicious place for a temple, town, etc. to be built (feng shui)
- —柱穴posthole (archaeology)
- —二穴two holes; toilet with separate chambers for urine and faeces; riding double (on a bicycle, motorcycle, etc.)
- —百穴cluster of Kofun-period graves
- —七穴the seven orifices of the head (eyes, nostrils, ear canals, mouth)