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洞

dòng

HSK 5 Character Measure word 个

What 洞 means

1. cave
2. hole
3. zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers)

Other readings

洞 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• tóngused in {洪洞|Hóng tóng} (the name of a place in Shanxi)

Example sentences

• 黑洞存在吗？
  Hēidòng cúnzài ma?
  Do black holes exist?
• 这个洞多深?
  How deep is the hole?
• 他挖了一个洞。
  Tā wā le yī gè dòng.
  He dug a hole.
• 这个桶有个洞。
  Zhège tǒng yǒu gè dòng.
  This bucket has a hole in it.
• 这洞有多深啊？
  How deep is the hole?
• 天花板上有洞。
  There's a hole in the ceiling.

Words starting with 洞

• 洞穴dòng xuécave; cavern
• 洞口dòng kǒucave mouth; tunnel entrance
• 洞房dòng fángsecret inner room; bridal room
• 洞察dòng cháto see clearly
• 洞窟dòng kūa cave
• 洞悉dòng xīto clearly understand
• 洞察力dòng chá lìinsight
• 洞天dòng tiānparadise; heavenly or beautiful place; fairyland
• 洞庭湖Dòng tíng HúDongting Lake in northeast Hunan province
• 洞开dòng kāito be wide open
• 洞子dòng zicave; pit; (colloquial) greenhouse
• 洞府dòng fǔcave dwelling; legendary abode of immortals
• 洞穿dòng chuānto penetrate; to pierce; to see clearly
• 洞见dòng jiàninsight; to see clearly
• 洞鉴dòng jiànto examine deeply; to inspect closely
• 洞头区Dòng tóu QūDongtou, a district of Wenzhou City 温州市
• 洞若观火dòng ruò guān huǒlit. to see sth as clearly as one sees a blazing fire (idiom)…
• 洞洞鞋dòng dòng xiéCrocs shoes (or any similar shoe)
• 洞孔dòng kǒnghole
• 洞口县Dòng kǒu XiànDongkou, a county in Shaoyang City 邵阳市
• 洞泄dòng xièlienteric diarrhea (TCM)
• 洞房花烛dòng fáng huā zhúbridal room and ornamented candles; wedding festivities (idiom)
• 洞房花烛夜dòng fáng huā zhú yèwedding night
• 洞螈dòng yuánolm (Proteus anguinus)

Words containing 洞

• 空洞kōng dòngcavity; empty; vacuous
• 漏洞lòu dòngleak; hole; gap
• 山洞shān dòngcavern; cave
• 黑洞hēi dòng(astronomy) black hole
• 窑洞yáo dòngyaodong (a kind of cave dwelling in the Loess Plateau in northwest China)
• 防空洞fáng kōng dòngair raid shelter; bomb shelter; (fig.) place that protects bad people; hideout
• 门洞mén dòngpassageway; archway
• 黑洞洞hēi dòng dòngpitch-dark
• 地洞dì dòngtunnel; cave; burrow; dugout
• 溶洞róng dòng(geology) solutional cave (typically, a limestone cave)
• 破洞pò dònga hole
• 无底洞wú dǐ dòngbottomless pit
• 冰洞bīng dònghole in ice; crevasse
• 打洞dǎ dòngto punch a hole; to drill a hole; to dig a hole
• 树洞shù dòngtree hollow; (slang) anonymous platform for sharing secrets; (slang) confidant
• 狗洞gǒu dòngdog door
• 白洞bái dòngwhite hole (cosmology)
• 石洞shí dòngcave; cavern
• 穿洞chuān dòngpierce
• 耳洞ěr dòngear piercing hole; earring hole
• 钻洞zuān dòngto bore; to burrow; to crawl through a tunnel
• 电洞diàn dòngelectron hole (physics)
• 风洞fēng dòngwind tunnel
• 龙洞lóng dòngcave; natural cavern (in limestone)

Characters built on 同

These share the phonetic component 同 (tóng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 铜tóngcopper (chemistry); see also 红铜
• 筒tǒngtube; cylinder; to encase in sth cylindrical (such as hands in sleeves etc)
• 酮tóngketone
• 桐tóngtree name (variously Paulownia, Firmiana or Aleurites)
• 恫dòngfrighten
• 胴dònglarge intestine; torso
• 硐tónggrind
• 侗tóngignorant

Characters that look like 洞

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 闹nàonoisy; cacophonous; to make noise
• 闽Mǐnshort name for Fujian 福建; also pr. Mín
• 凋diāowithered
• 俐lìused in 伶俐
• 埚guōcrucible
• 浜bāngstream; creek

Sounds the same

Read dòng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 动(of sth) to move; to set in movement; to displace
• 冻to freeze; to feel very cold; aspic or jelly
• 栋classifier for houses or buildings; ridgepole (old)
• 峒cave; cavern
• 恫frighten
• 胴large intestine; torso
• 丼(Taiwan) bowl of steamed rice with other food on top (loanword from Japanese "donburi")
• 垌field; farm; used in place names
• 湩milk; sound of a drum
• 侗Dong ethnic group
• 胨see 蛋白胨
• 硐variant of 洞; cave; pit