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穴あな
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Meanings
Noun
1. hole; opening; orifice; perforation
2. pit; hollow; cavity; hole (e.g. in the ground)
3. burrow; den; lair; holt; hole
4. deficit; shortage; (financial) hole; loss
5. gap (left by a missing employee, team member, etc.); vacancy; opening
6. flaw; fault; defect; weak point; hole (in a theory, plan, etc.); loophole
7. good place not many people know about; well-kept secret
8. upset victory (with a large payoff); long shot; dark horse
9. (partitioned) box (type of floor seating in a traditional Japanese theatre) (theatre jargon)
Other spellings
孔あな
Kanji used
穴hole
Kanji in other spellings
孔small hole
Pitch accent
あな
Used in vocabulary
落おとし穴あな
pitfall; trap; pit
Noun
抜ぬけ穴あな
secret passage; underground passage; loophole; hole one can go through; opening
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穴あなあけ
drilling; hole punching
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穴あな開あけ器き
(hole) punch; stiletto
Noun
送おくり穴あな
perforations (e.g. in film)
Noun
一ひとつ穴あな
same hole (in which to live); gang; group
Noun
穴あなじゃくし
perforated ladle; slotted spoon
Noun
穴あな釣づり
fishing by dropping a line between rocks or concrete tetrapods; ice fishing (esp. for smelt); sniggling (fishing for eels by thrusting a baited hook into their dens)
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穴あなあき銭せん
perforated coin
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空くう気き穴あな
air vent (hole)
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バカ穴あな
clearance hole (hole for a bolt, screw, etc., which is large enough to allow the thread, etc. to pass through)
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穴あな狙ねらい
betting on an outsider (in horse racing, etc.); taking a long shot; dark horse betting
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Examples50
And the teams competed with each other to try to kick the ball through this hole.
Let me apologize once again for missing our meeting.
He stared a hole through her.
Holes gaped open in the streets after the earthquake.
This board bores easily.
This stone has a hole in the center.