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山洞

shān dòng

2-character word

What 山洞 means

1. cavern
2. cave

The characters in 山洞

• 山shānmountain; hill; (colloquial) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
• 洞dòngcave; hole; zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers)

Example sentences

• 我们在山洞里迷了路。
  We got lost in the cave.
• "山洞里发生了什么事?" 我很好奇。"我不知道。"
  "shāndòng lǐ fāshēng le shénmeshì?" wǒ hěn hàoqí."wǒ bù zhīdào."
  "What's going on in the cave? I'm curious." "I have no idea."
• 一个牧羊人把他一身白雪的山羊赶进被遗弃的山洞躲避暴风雪。
  A goatherd drove his goats, all white with snow, into a deserted cave for shelter.
• 一个牧羊人把赶着全身盖白雪的山羊进去被遗弃的山洞躲避暴风雪。
  Yī gè mùyángrén bǎ gǎn zhe quánshēn gài báixuě de shānyáng jìnqù bèi yíqì de shāndòng duǒbì bàofēngxuě.
  A goatherd drove his goats, all white with snow, into a deserted cave for shelter.

Sounds the same

Read shān dòng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 煽动to incite; to instigate
• 扇动to fan; to flap; to incite