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)
On readings
ケツ
Kun readings
あな
Words with 穴
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —穴居人cave dweller; caveman
- —闇穴道road taken by a Chinese ajari buddhist monk when he incurred the wrath of emperor Genso (685-762)
- —貯蔵穴storage pit (esp. Jomon to Yayoi periods)
- —偕老同穴happy life partnership; living faithfully together till death; Venus's flower basket (Euplectella aspergillum)
- —穴マンコanus; asshole; arsehole
- —墓穴を掘るto dig one's own grave; to bring calamity upon oneself; to make a rod for one's own back
- —二穴同時挿入double penetration
- —虎穴に入らずんばnothing ventured, nothing gained; you will not get the tiger cub without entering the tiger's den
- —虎口を逃れて竜穴に入るout of the frying pan into the fire; out of the tiger's mouth into the dragon's den
- —虎穴に入らずんば虎子を得ずnothing ventured, nothing gained; you will not get the tiger cub without entering the tiger's den
- —千丈の堤も蟻の一穴より崩れるa small leak will sink a great ship
- —點穴pressure points (e.g. for application of moxa); vulnerable body cavities
- —闇穴dark hole; idiot; fool; road taken by a Chinese ajari buddhist monk when he incurred the wrath of emperor Genso (685-762)
- —龍穴dragon's den; auspicious place for a temple, town, etc. to be built (feng shui)
- —空っ穴flat broke; stone broke; penniless
- —暗穴道road taken by a Chinese ajari buddhist monk when he incurred the wrath of emperor Genso (685-762)
- —穴を捲るto suddenly assume an antagonistic attitude; to suddenly become defiant; to turn aggressive (in one's manner); to moon; to point one's naked buttocks at someone; to give someone the brown-eye
- —穴まんこanus; asshole; arsehole
- —虎穴に入らずんば虎児を得ずnothing ventured, nothing gained; you will not get the tiger cub without entering the tiger's den