穴

hole, aperture, slit, cave, den

Readings

On'yomi (音読み)

ケツ

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

あな

Nanori (名乗り)

けなししな

Stroke Order

5 / 5

Information

Grade:6

Strokes:5

JLPT:N1

Frequency:1366

Vocabulary

ケツ

Word	Reading	Meaning
馬穴	バケツ	bucket; pail
横穴	オウケツ	cave; tunnel; tunnel tomb (Kofun period)
洞穴	ドウケツ	cave; cavern; den; grotto
墓穴	ボケツ	grave (pit)
虎穴	コケツ	lion's den; very dangerous place or situation; tiger's den

Other

Word	Reading	Meaning
穴	あな	hole; opening; orifice; perforation; pit; hollow; cavity; hole (e.g. in the ground); burrow; den; lair; holt; hole; deficit; shortage; (financial) hole; loss; gap (left by a missing employee, team member, etc.); vacancy; opening; flaw; fault; defect; weak point; hole (in a theory, plan, etc.); loophole; good place not many people know about; well-kept secret; upset victory (with a large payoff); long shot; dark horse; (partitioned) box (type of floor seating in a traditional Japanese theatre); hiding place; hideout
穴埋め	あなうめ	filling (up) a hole; filling in (for a gap, vacancy, etc.); stopgap; filler (e.g. article); making up (for a loss, damage, etc.); covering (a deficit); compensation; fill-in-the-blank activity; cloze test (i.e. text with words removed)
落とし穴	おとしあな	pitfall; trap; pit
風穴	かざあな	air hole; windhole; air vent; deep cave from which cold wind blows
風穴	かぜあな	air hole; windhole; air vent; deep cave from which cold wind blows

Visually Similar Kanji

These kanji are easily confused due to similar shapes

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reality, truth, seed, fruit, nut

superfluous, uselessness

icicle, ice, hail, freeze, congeal

sentence, literature, style, art, decoration, figures, plan, literary radical (no. 67)