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"a cave" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
洞窟 dòng kū a cave syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation
眼 yǎn eye (CL:隻|只[zhi1],雙|双[shuang1]) / (often used with 一[yi1]) a look / a glance / small hole / (bound form) salient point / classifier for wells, cave-dwellings etc syn
洞穴 dòng xué cave / cavern syn
山洞 shān dòng cavern / cave syn
穴居 xué jū to live in a cave / (of animals) to be of burrowing habit
洞口 dòng kǒu cave mouth / tunnel entrance
塌陷 tā xiàn to subside / to sink / to cave in syn
凹陷 āo xiàn to cave in / hollow / sunken / depressed syn
地洞 dì dòng tunnel / cave / burrow / dugout syn
塌方 tā fāng to cave in / to collapse / to have a landslide syn
沉降 chén jiàng to subside / to cave in / subsidence syn
顶板 頂板 dǐng bǎn roof / roof plate / rock layer forming roof of a cave or mine / abacus
石窟 shí kū rock cave / grotto / cliff caves (often with Buddhist statues)
溶洞 róng dòng (geology) solutional cave (typically, a limestone cave)
窑洞 窯洞 yáo dòng yaodong (a kind of cave dwelling in the Loess Plateau in northwest China) / CL:孔[kong3] syn
沉陷 chén xiàn to sink / to cave in / (of a building etc) to subside / (fig.) to get lost (in contemplation, daydreams etc) syn
石洞 shí dòng cave / cavern
洞府 dòng fǔ cave dwelling / legendary abode of immortals
须弥 須彌 xū mí Mt Meru or Sumeru, sacred mountain in Buddhist and Jain tradition / Mt Xumi in Guyuan 固原[Gu4 yuan2], Ningxia, with many Buddhist cave statues
龙洞 龍洞 lóng dòng cave / natural cavern (in limestone)
水帘洞 水簾洞 shuǐ lián dòng cave with a waterfall at its mouth
阴穴 陰穴 yīn xué cave / (coll.) vagina
洞 dòng cave / hole / zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
陷 xiàn pitfall / trap / to get stuck / to sink / to cave in / to frame (false charge) / to capture (a city in battle) / to fall (to the enemy) / defect syn
孔 kǒng hole / CL:個|个[ge4] / classifier for cave dwellings syn
穴 xué cave / cavity / hole / acupuncture point / Taiwan pr. [xue4] syn
窟 kū cave / hole syn
堀 kū cave / hole
土窑 土窯 tǔ yáo earthen kiln / loess cave
空穴来风 空穴來風 kōng xué lái fēng lit. wind from an empty cave (idiom) / fig. unfounded (story) / baseless (claim) syn
峒 dòng cave / cavern
硐 dòng variant of 洞[dong4] / cave / pit
岩穴 yán xué grotto / cave
穴居人 xué jū rén cave man
碉 diāo rock cave (archaic)
岫 xiù cave / mountain peak
空洞无物 空洞無物 kōng dòng wú wù empty cave, nothing there (idiom) / devoid of substance / nothing new to show syn
藏经洞 藏經洞 zàng jīng dòng cave holding scripture depository, part of Mogao cave complex 莫高窟, Dunhuang 敦煌
热室 熱室 rè shì hot cell / hot cave / cave
崩陷 bēng xiàn to fall in / to cave in
窞 dàn pit / cave
峇 kē cave
屇 tián cave / hole
崩毁 崩毀 bēng huǐ to collapse / to cave in
挖穴 wā xué to excavate / to dig out a cave
空穴来风未必无因 空穴來風未必無因 kòng xué lái fēng wèi bì wú yīn wind does not come from an empty cave without reason / there's no smoke without fire (idiom)
托拉博拉 託拉博拉 tuō lā bó lā Tora Bora, cave complex in the White Mountains of eastern Afghanistan
须弥山 須彌山 xū mí shān Mt Meru or Sumeru, sacred mountain in Buddhist and Jain tradition / Mt Xumi in Guyuan 固原[Gu4 yuan2], Ningxia, with many Buddhist cave statues
风穴 風穴 fēng xué wind cave
峇 kè cave / cavern / also pr. [ke1]
洞子 dòng zi cave / pit / (coll.) greenhouse
冒顶 冒頂 mào dǐng (mining) roof fall / to have the roof cave in syn
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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