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洞穴

dòng xué

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

洞穴 (dòng xué) means "cave; cavern". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 洞穴 means

1. cave
2. cavern

The characters in 洞穴

• 洞dòngcave; hole; zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers)
• 穴xuécave; cavity; hole

Example sentences

• 一条龙住在洞穴里。
  Yītiáolóng zhù zài dòngxué lǐ.
  A dragon lives inside the cavern.
• 这地方有多少洞穴？
  How many caves are there in this area?
• 汤姆害怕待在洞穴里。
  Tom was afraid to stay in the cave.
• 汤姆在洞穴里找到了一具骨架。
  Tāngmǔ zài dòngxué lǐ zhǎodào le yī jù gǔjià.
  Tom found a skeleton in the cave.
• 探险家们在洞穴里发现了骸骨。
  Tànxiǎnjiā men zài dòngxué lǐ fāxiàn le háigǔ.
  The explorers discovered a skeleton in the cave.
• 汤姆将会是第一个进入那洞穴的人。
  Tom will be the first person to enter the cave.

Where 洞穴 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · dòng–dū (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dòng xué correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.