Kanji Detail for 窩 - "cave, hide"

窩

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning

窩 means "cave, hide."
1. Cave - A hollow; a cellar; a cavern.
2. Hide - To conceal objects.
Dictionary Citations

The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

cave; pouch

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

nest; cave, den; hiding place

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

nest; pit or hollow on the human body; lair; den; place; to harbor or shelter; to hold in check; to bend; classifier for litters and broods

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

cave, den, nest; hiding place; measure word for small animals

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

Cave dwelling. Such as beehives called 蜂窩. | To hide. Those who harbor fugitives and stolen goods. Commonly called 窩家. | Colloquially, what is concave is called 窩.
Onyomi

ka(カ)

wa(ワ)
Kunyomi

muro(むろ)
Strokes

14 strokes
Radical

穴 (ana・anakammuri)
Related Keywords

cave hollow cellar cavern hide conceal objects

眼窩とは、目をいれている骨のいれもののことです。
The eye socket is the bone receptacle in which the eye fits.
太った女性も、若いカップルも、眠っているインド人も、そして、背の高い黒服の男も。しかし、今では皮膚も肉も髪もなくなって、ぼんやり光る白い頭蓋骨から、からっぽの眼窩がにらみつけていた。
The fat woman, the young couple, the sleeping Indian and the tall man in black, but now skin and flesh and hair had disappeared, and empty eye sockets stared from gleaming white skulls.