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穴

xué

HSK 6 Character

What 穴 means

1. cave
2. cavity
3. hole
4. acupuncture point
5. Taiwan pr. xuè

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?
• 我太阳穴处疼极了。
  My temples are hurting me terribly.
• 不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
  Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
• 汤姆害怕待在洞穴里。
  Tom was afraid to stay in the cave.
• 他真是刚出狼窝又入虎穴。
  He fell out of the frying pan into the fire.

Words starting with 穴

• 穴位xué wèiacupuncture point; location of a grave
• 穴道xué dàoacupuncture point; acupoint
• 穴居xué jūto live in a cave; (of animals) to be of burrowing habit
• 穴播xué bōbunch planting
• 穴脉xué màinode (center of energy); acupuncture point; Chakra
• 穴头xué tou(show business) promoter
• 穴鸟xué niǎojackdaw (family Corvidae)
• 穴居人xué jū réncave man

Words containing 穴

• 洞穴dòng xuécave; cavern
• 太阳穴tài yáng xuétemple (on the sides of human head)
• 墓穴mù xuétomb; grave
• 巢穴cháo xuélair; nest; den
• 走穴zǒu xué(of itinerant entertainers) to tour, playing in many venues
• 空穴来风kōng xué lái fēnglit. wind from an empty cave (idiom); fig. unfounded (story); baseless (claim)
• 地穴dì xuépit; burrow; crypt
• 孔穴kǒng xuéaperture; hole; cavity
• 岩穴yán xuégrotto; cave
• 挖穴wā xuéto excavate; to dig out a cave
• 死穴sǐ xuélethal point (acupuncture); vulnerable spot; Achilles' heel
• 淫穴yín xuépussy; cunt; twat
• 兽穴shòu xuéanimal den
• 空穴kòng xuéelectron hole (physics)
• 经穴jīng xuéacupuncture point (any point on any meridian); category of 12 specific acupuncture points…
• 蜜穴mì xué(colloquial) vagina; pussy
• 阴穴yīn xuécave; (colloquial) vagina
• 风穴fēng xuéwind cave
• 点穴diǎn xuéto hit a pressure point (martial arts); dim mak; see also 点脉
• 印堂穴yìn táng xuéyintang, acupuncture point at the midpoint between the medial ends of the eyebrows
• 曲池穴qū chí xuéQuchi acupoint LI11, at the lateral end of the elbow crease
• 会阴穴huì yīn xué(TCM) acupuncture point CV-1, located on the perineum
• 武穴市Wǔ xué ShìWuxue, a county-level city in Huanggang City 黄冈市
• 阿是穴ā shì xué(TCM) ashi point: a tender spot that is not a standard acupuncture point

Sounds the same

Read xué, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 学to learn; to study; to imitate
• 踅to walk around; turn back midway
• 觷to polish horn
• 乴to grasp
• 峃big rocky mountain
• 茓to store grain by enclosing it in a woven mat rolled into a vertical cylinder
• 鸴various species of finch (old)
• 斈variant of 学