窑洞 (窯洞)
yáo dòng
Pinyin

Definition

窑洞 (窯洞)
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yáo dòng
  1. yaodong (a kind of cave dwelling in the Loess Plateau in northwest China)
  2. CL:孔[kǒng]

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

洞
dòng
  1. 1 cave
  2. 2 hole
  3. 3 zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers)
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
地洞
dì dòng
  1. 1 tunnel
  2. 2 cave
  3. 3 burrow
  4. 4 dugout
山洞
shān dòng
  1. 1 cavern
  2. 2 cave
洞口
Dòng kǒu
  1. 1 Dongkou county in Shaoyang 邵陽|邵阳[Shào yáng], Hunan
洞天
dòng tiān
  1. 1 paradise
  2. 2 heavenly or beautiful place
  3. 3 fairyland

Idioms (10)

小洞不堵，大洞受苦
xiǎo dòng bù dǔ , dà dòng shòu kǔ
  1. 1 A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (idiom); A stitch in time saves nine.
小洞不堵，大洞吃苦
xiǎo dòng bù dǔ , dà dòng chī kǔ
  1. 1 a small hole not plugged will give you grief when it gets bigger (idiom)
  2. 2 a stitch in time saves nine
小洞不堵，大洞难补
xiǎo dòng bù dǔ , dà dòng nán bǔ
  1. 1 If you don't plug the small hole, the big hole will be hard to repair (idiom); A stitch in time saves nine.
小洞不补大洞吃苦
xiǎo dòng bù bǔ dà dòng chī kǔ
  1. 1 A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (idiom); a stitch in time saves nine
引蛇出洞
yǐn shé chū dòng
  1. 1 lit. to pull a snake from its hole
  2. 2 to expose a malefactor (idiom)