穴 – hole, aperture, slit

5 strokesTaught in grade 6#1366 in newspaper frequencyN3 vocabulary

The kanji 穴 means hole, aperture, slit, cave, den. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ケツ (ketsu); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is あな (ana). It is written with 5 strokes, under radical 穴 (no. 116).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ケツ	ketsu
Kun’yomi	あな	ana

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 穴 (Kangxi radical 116). Components: ハ・宀・儿.

Words using 穴

穴あなhole

Example sentences

そして各チームはボールを蹴ってこの穴に通そうと互いに競い合ったのです。

And the teams competed with each other to try to kick the ball through this hole.

Tatoeba #213510

ミーティングに穴をあけてしまったことに対し、再度お詫びします。

Let me apologize once again for missing our meeting.

Tatoeba #195126

Kanji with the same radical

空究突窓窮窒

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