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窦

dòu

Character Traditional 竇

What 窦 means

1. literaryhole; aperture
2. (anatomy) cavity; sinus

Other readings

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

• Dòusurname Dou

Words starting with 窦

• 窦窖dòu jiàocellar; crypt
• 窦道dòu dàosinus (anatomy); subterranean passage
• 窦房结dòu fáng jié(anatomy) sinoatrial node; sinuatrial node
• 窦性心律dòu xìng xīn lǜ(medicine) sinus rhythm
• 窦娥冤Dòu É yuānThe Injustice to Dou E (popular drama by 关汉卿

Words containing 窦

• 情窦初开qíng dòu chū kāifirst awakening of love (usually of a girl) (idiom)
• 情窦qíng dòu(lit.) love aperture; (fig.) interest in love matters
• 狗窦gǒu dòudog hole; gap caused by missing teeth; fig. den of thieves
• 玛窦Mǎ dòuMatthew; St Matthew the evangelist; less common variant of 马太
• 疑窦yí dòu(literary) doubts; suspicions; cause for suspicion
• 蝶窦dié dòusphenoidal sinus
• 额窦é dòufrontal sinus
• 鼻窦bí dòuparanasal sinus
• 乳突窦rǔ tū dòu(anatomy) mastoid antrum
• 利玛窦Lì Mǎ dòuMatteo Ricci (1552-1610), Jesuit missionary and translator in Ming China
• 冯窦伯Féng Dòu bóFeng Doubo or Feng Wu (1672-), calligrapher of the Ming-Qing transition; also called 冯武
• 鼻旁窦bí páng dòuparanasal sinus
• 鼻窦炎bí dòu yánsinusitis
• 狗窦大开gǒu dòu dà kāidog hole wide open (idiom); fig. gap caused by missing teeth (used mockingly)
• 玛窦福音Mǎ dòu Fú yīnGospel according to St Matthew
• 闭门塞窦bì mén sè dòuto close doors and block openings (idiom); mounting a strict defense
• 荜门圭窦bì mén guī dòuwicker door, hole window (idiom); fig. wretched hovel; living in poverty
• 筚门闺窦bì mén guī dòuwicker door, hole window (idiom); fig. wretched hovel; living in poverty

Characters that look like 窦

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

• 需xūto require; to need; to want
• 寞mòlonesome
• 熏xūnto smoke; to fumigate; to assail the nostrils
• 雳lìused in 霹雳
• 雹báohail
• 獒áo(bound form) mastiff

Sounds the same

Read dòu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 斗to fight; to struggle; to condemn
• 豆legume; pulse; bean; pea (variant of 豆
• 逗to tease (playfully); to entice; (colloquial) to joke; (colloquial) funny; amusing
• 痘pimple; pustule
• 读comma; phrase marked by pause
• 饾to set out food
• 脰(literary) neck
• 鬬variant of 斗
• 閗variant of 斗