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窑洞

yáo dòng

2-character word Traditional 窯洞 Measure word 孔

What 窑洞 means

1. yaodong (a kind of cave dwelling in the Loess Plateau in northwest China)

The characters in 窑洞

• 窑yáokiln; oven; coal pit
• 洞dòngcave; hole; zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers)

Sounds the same

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

• 摇动to shake; to sway

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