穴
xué
Pinyin
Definition
穴
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- cave
- cavity
- hole
- acupuncture point
- Taiwan pr. [xuè]
Character Decomposition
Compounds (29)
- 1 empty
- 2 air
- 3 sky
- 4 in vain
- 1 to empty
- 2 vacant
- 3 unoccupied
- 4 space
- 5 leisure
- 6 free time
- 1 after all
- 2 to investigate
- 3 to study carefully
- 4 Taiwan pr. [jiù]
- 1 to dash
- 2 to move forward quickly
- 3 to bulge
- 4 to protrude
- 5 to break through
- 6 to rush out
- 7 sudden
- 8 Taiwan pr. [tú]
- 1 to control
- 2 to accuse
- 3 to charge
- 4 to sue
- 5 to invert a container to empty it
- 6 (suffix) (slang) buff
- 7 enthusiast
- 8 devotee
- 9 -phile or -philia
Idioms (4)
不入虎穴,焉得虎子
- 1 How do you catch the tiger cub without entering the tiger's lair? (idiom); Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
千里之堤,溃于蚁穴
- 1 an ant hole may cause the collapse of a great dike (idiom)
- 2 huge damage may result from a moment's negligence
空穴来风
- 1 lit. wind from an empty cave (idiom)
- 2 fig. unfounded (story)
- 3 baseless (claim)
空穴来风未必无因
- 1 wind does not come from an empty cave without reason
- 2 there's no smoke without fire (idiom)
Sample Sentences
有人的心原是虎穴,穴口的几朵蔷薇免不了猛虎的践踏;有人的心原是花园,园中的猛虎不免给那一片香潮醉倒。所以前者气质近于阳刚,而后者气质近于阴柔。
Some people's hearts start out as tiger lairs, with the roses at the mouth of the tiger's lair inevitably being trampled by the tiger; some people's hearts start out as gardens, and the tiger in the garden is inevitably intoxicated by the fragrance. So the nature of the former is closer to masculine, and the nature of the latter is closer to feminine.
至少要买一口好棺材。有的人家会修很豪华的墓穴,再立个墓碑。出殡那天请八九个青壮年把棺材抬到墓地去。还要请前来参加丧礼的亲戚朋友吃饭。
At the very least, you have to buy a good coffin. Some people construct really luxurious burial vaults and place a tombstone on top. On the day of the funeral procession, they'll find 8 or 9 strong, young people to help carry the coffin to the grave site. They'll also treat the relatives who came to the funeral earlier to a dinner.
我经常找的一个师傅就是。他找穴位很准,按得很舒服。
One of the masseuses I often go to did just that. He's really good at finding acupoints. His massages feel really good.
又不是乱插,是插到穴位里。这样加热过的药可以直接进入身体,调理气血。
They don't just randomly stick you, they find your pressure points. The heat allows the body to immediately respond to the treatment, restoring the body's 'chi'.