| 竅 | |||
| hole, opening, aperture | |||
| Radical | 穴𥤢 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 13 | Total Strokes | 18 |
| Mandarin reading |
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Cantonese reading | hiu3 kiu3 |
| Japanese on reading | kyou | Japanese kun reading | ana |
| Korean reading | kyu | Vietnamese reading | khíu |
| Simplified Variant(s) | 窍 | ||
| 竅 | [ ] hole, opening, orifice (of the human body), (fig.) key (to the solution of a problem) |
| 竅門 | [ mén ] a trick, an ingenious method, know-how, the knack (of doing sth) |
| 竅門兒 | [ mén ] a trick, an ingenious method, know-how, the knack (of doing sth) |
| ⇒ 一竅不通 | [ yī bù tōng ] lit. doesn't (even) enter a single aperture (of one's head), I don't understand a word (idiom), it's all Greek to me |
| ⇒ 七竅 | [ qī ] the seven apertures of the human head: 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils, 1 mouth |
| ⇒ 七竅生煙 | [ qī shēng yān ] lit. spouting smoke through the seven orifices (idiom), fig. to seethe with anger |
| ⇒ 不開竅 | [ bù kaī ] unable to understand, can't get the point |
| ⇒ 九竅 | [ jiǔ ] nine orifices of the human body (eyes, nostrils, ears, mouth, urethra, anus) |
| ⇒ 心竅 | [ xīn ] the mind, capacity for clear thinking |
| ⇒ 訣竅 | [ jué ] secret, trick, knack, key |
| ⇒ 財迷心竅 | [ caí mí xīn ] mad about money (idiom) |
| ⇒ 開竅 | [ kaī ] to get it straight, to start to understand things properly, enlightenment dawns |
| ⇒ 靈魂出竅 | [ líng hún chū ] out-of-body experience |
| ⇒ 鬼迷心竅 | [ guǐ mí xīn ] to be obsessed, to be possessed |