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Keyword
cave
  • grotto
  • hole
  • ravine
Frequency
#1389
Strokes
9
Readings
dòng100%
Mnemonic
氵 (water) gives the meaning and 同 the sound.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
洞dòng
cave; hole; zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers)
漏洞lòudòng
leak; hole; gap; loophole
洞穴dòngxué
cave; cavern
黑洞hēidòng
(astronomy) black hole
空洞kōngdòng
cavity; empty; vacuous
山洞shāndòng
cavern; cave
洞口dòngkǒu
cave mouth; tunnel entrance
洞察dòngchá
to see clearly
坑洞kēngdòng
hole; pit; pothole
洞房dòngfáng
secret inner room; bridal room
无底洞wúdǐdòng
bottomless pit
洞庭湖DòngtíngHú
Dongting Lake in northeast Hunan province
洞悉dòngxī
to clearly understand
防空洞fángkōngdòng
air raid shelter; bomb shelter; (fig.) place that protects bad people; hideout
窑洞yáodòng
yaodong (a kind of cave dwelling in the Loess Plateau in northwest China)
张之洞ZhāngZhīdòng
Zhang Zhidong (1837-1909), prominent politician in late Qing
风洞fēngdòng
wind tunnel
挖洞wādòng
to dig a hole
漏洞百出lòudòngbǎichū
(of an argument, theory etc) full of flaws (idiom)
溶洞róngdòng
(geology) solutional cave (typically, a limestone cave)
打洞dǎdòng
to punch a hole; to drill a hole; to dig a hole; to burrow
地洞dìdòng
tunnel; cave; burrow; dugout