洞 dòng cave
cave; grotto; hole; ravine
怎么记住“洞”: 氵 water + 同 same = cave. Dripping water echoes around the twins in the same yellow raincoats as they crawl deeper into the cave, whatever grandpa calls it.
部件结构
形声 · Meaning + sound
One part gives the meaning, the other gives the sound.
洞 = 氵 water + 同 same
- 氵 water meaning
- 同 same sound
- 冂 box
- 𠮛 piled up
Dripping water echoes around the twins in the same yellow raincoats as they crawl deeper into the cave, whatever grandpa calls it.
How it came to be
The water gives the meaning and the right part gives the sound.
用法
- General word for a hole/cavity, most often natural or sizable: 山洞 shāndòng "mountain cave", 黑洞 hēidòng "black hole".
- 洞 vs 孔 kǒng vs 眼 yǎn: 洞 is a bigger hole or cavity (cave, gap), 孔 is a smaller regular hole (a hole in paper, 针孔 needle hole), and 眼 in this sense is very colloquial for a tiny hole (针眼 zhēnyǎn), pick the size/register accordingly.
- 漏洞 lòudòng, literally "leaking hole", is figuratively "a loophole or flaw" in a plan, law, or security system, extremely common in tech and legal contexts: 系统有漏洞 xìtǒng yǒu lòudòng, "the system has a vulnerability".
含“洞”的词语
例句
- 这个洞很深。 Zhège dòng hěn shēn.This hole is very deep.