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 住处 住處 zhù chù residence / dwelling 住所 zhù suǒ habitation / dwelling place / residence / CL:處|处[chu4] syn 洞穴 dòng xué cave / cavern syn 住宅 zhù zhái residence / dwelling / abode syn 山洞 shān dòng cavern / cave syn 穴居 xué jū to live in a cave / (of animals) to be of burrowing habit 寓所 yù suǒ dwelling syn 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 洞窟 dòng kū a cave 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 人家 rén jiā household / dwelling / family / sb else's house / household business / house of woman's husband-to-be / CL:戶|户[hu4],家[jia1] syn 石洞 shí dòng cave / cavern 所居 suǒ jū residence / dwelling / dwelling place 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 聚落 jù luò settlement / dwelling place / town / village syn 居处 居處 jū chù dwelling place / home 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 蓬荜生辉 蓬蓽生輝 péng bì shēng huī Your presence brings light to my humble dwelling / see also 蓬蓽生光|蓬荜生光[peng2 bi4 sheng1 guang1] 土窑 土窯 tǔ yáo earthen kiln / loess cave 想开 想開 xiǎng kāi to get over (a shock, bereavement etc) / to avoid dwelling on unpleasant things / to accept the situation and move on syn 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 人去楼空 人去樓空 rén qù lóu kōng lit. the occupants have gone and the place is now empty (idiom) / fig. (of a dwelling) empty / deserted syn 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 蚖 yuán Protura (soil dwelling primitive hexapod) / variant of 螈, salamander / newt / triton 琼楼玉宇 瓊樓玉宇 qióng lóu yù yǔ bejeweled jade palace (idiom) / sumptuous dwelling 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 橧 zēng dwelling on top of wooden stakes 树栖 樹棲 shù qī arboreal / tree-dwelling 破瓦寒窑 破瓦寒窯 pò wǎ hán yáo lit. broken tiles, cold hearth / fig. a broken-down house / poor and shabby dwelling syn 蓬筚生光 蓬篳生光 péng bì shēng guāng Your presence brings light to my humble dwelling 蓬荜生光 蓬蓽生光 péng bì shēng guāng Your presence brings light to my humble dwelling 蚖虫 蚖蟲 yuán chóng Protura (soil dwelling primitive hexapod) 陋屋 lòu wū humble dwelling 森林居民 sēn lín jū mín forest people / forest-dwelling people 疍民 dàn mín boat-dwelling people of Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian provinces (old) 居宅 jū zhái dwelling 寮房 liáo fáng hut / simple dwelling / monk's hut 恋旧情结 戀舊情結 liàn jiù qíng jié dwelling on the past / difficulty in adapting to changes 蜑家 dàn jiā Tanka, boat-dwelling people of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hainan, and Zhejiang provinces 区处 區處 qū chù (literary) dwelling / residence / (Tw) regional office of a company 敖包 áo bāo (loanword from Mongolian) road or boundary marker made of piled up earth or stones, formerly worshipped as the dwelling place of spirits 群租 qún zū to rent to multiple co-tenants, esp. where the number of tenants exceeds what the dwelling is fit to accommodate (i.e. involving subdivision of rooms etc) 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 