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Pinyin: dòng
English Definition: cave; hole; zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers); Classifiers:
Chinese Definition:
①用本义。
②幽深。[合]洞虚(深幽)。
③广阔。[合]洞庭(广阔的庭院;又指湖名)。
④深。[合]洞壑(深谷);洞豁(深广);洞井(深洞)。
⑤清澈。[合]洞观(清澈见底);洞朗(清彻明亮);洞光(透明通亮)。
⑥透彻。[合]洞溢(透彻,详赡);洞视(透视,看得清楚);洞彻(洞澈。清澈;了解透彻)。
Total strokes: 9; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (water) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
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Example Words
漏洞 lòu dòng leak; hole; gap; loophole
窑洞 yáo dòng yaodong (a kind of cave dwelling in the Loess Plateau in northwest China); Classifiers:
空洞 kōng dòng cavity; empty; vacuous
黑洞 hēi dòng (astronomy) black hole
洞口 dòng kǒu Dongkou county in Shaoyang 邵阳 , Hunan
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Example Sentences
1
This hole looks very deep.
2
This software has security vulnerabilities.
3
There are many caves in the deep forests.
4
It takes some slow crawling to get through this hole.
5
Hackers infiltrated the database through the vulnerability.