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穴

穴

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

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

穴 (radical 116 穴+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 十金 (JC), four-corner 30802)

  1. Kangxi radical #116, ⽳ ‎(“cave”).

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 穴

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 穴
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (穴) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
泬 *qʰʷliːɡ
坹 *qʰʷliːɡ, *ɡʷliːɡ
穴 *ɡʷliːɡ
袕 *ɡʷliːɡ, *ɢʷjiɡ
鴪 *ɢʷiɡ

Pronunciation

  • 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]ʷˤi[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

穴

  1. hole
  2. cave, cavern, lair, den

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

穴

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. hole, opening

Readings

Compounds

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

Pronunciation

Noun

穴 ‎(hiragana あな, romaji ana)

  1. hole
  2. opening, aperture
  3. pit
  4. cave, cavern
  5. lair, den, burrow
  6. loss, deficit
  7. flaw, defect

Synonyms

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  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 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

穴 • ‎(hyeol)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 혈 (McCune-Reischauer: hyŏl, Yale: hyel)
  • Name (hangeul): 구멍 (revised: gumeong)
  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

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

穴 (huyệt)

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