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Kanji Detail for 洞 - "cave, cavity, insight"
洞
- Meaning
洞 means "cave, cavity, insight."
Cave - A natural underground hollow.
Cavity - A hollow space; an empty area.
Penetrate - To see through; to understand deeply.
Insight - The ability to see into the true nature of things.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
den; cave; excavation
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
cave, grotto; ravine; hole
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
cave; hole; zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers); CL:個|个[ge4]
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
cave, grotto, hole, ravine
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A deep cave. | A hole. Anything pierced through is commonly called 洞. | Penetrating thoroughly. As in describing someone's keen perception as 洞鑒 (penetrating insight).
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