あな
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. hole; opening; orifice; perforation
Noun
2. pit; hollow; cavity; hole (e.g. in the ground)
3. burrow; den; lair; holt; hole
4. deficit; shortage; (financial) hole; loss
5. gap (left by a missing employee, team member, etc.); vacancy; opening
6. flaw; fault; defect; weak point; hole (in a theory, plan, etc.); loophole
7. good place not many people know about; well-kept secret
8. upset victory (with a large payoff); long shot; dark horse
9. (partitioned) box (type of floor seating in a traditional Japanese theatre)
theatre jargon
10. hiding place; hideout
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (87 in total)
cave; cavern; den; grotto
to have a hole; to be pierced (with a hole)
cellar; cave; hole in the ground
to cause a loss; to make a hole (in)
pitfall; trap; pit
keyhole
keyhole
pore (of the skin)
pit; shaft
to fill in a hole; to plug a gap (money, personnel, etc.); to make up for a deficiency; to cover a deficit
(villains) of the same stripe; birds of a feather; (lit.) badgers of the same hole
(staring) piercingly; (looking) hard
knothole; peep-hole; (fig.) bad eyes; tunnel vision
pore (of the skin)
hole; hollow; pothole (road, pavement, etc.)
large hole; big deficit; heavy losses; long-shot win (in horse racing, etc.); big winnings (on a long shot)
nesting hole; burrow; den
grave (pit)
secret passage; underground passage; loophole; hole one can go through; opening
excavation; digging
vagina; anus
drilling; hole punching
air vent (hole)
clearance hole (hole for a bolt, screw, etc., which is large enough to allow the thread, etc. to pass through)
boring (a hole)
riddled with holes; full of holes; full of flaws; full of loopholes; faulty
cave; tunnel; tunnel tomb (Kofun period)
filling (up) a hole; filling in (for a gap, vacancy, etc.); stopgap; making up (for a loss, damage, etc.); covering (a deficit); fill-in-the-blank activity
anus; asshole; arsehole
anus; asshole; arsehole
good place not many people know about; great little-known spot; good out-of-the-way place; betting booth (at a racecourse)
to find someone's weak spot; (lit.) to drill a hole
badger; Eurasian badger (Meles meles); anaguma castle (defensive opening)
peephole; spyhole; inspection hole; observation window
to fill a hole with earth
eye of a needle
pierced; drilled; perforated; hollow
rock cave; rock cavern
volcanic cave traditionally said to be inhabited
anus; asshole; arsehole
pinhole
betting on an outsider (in horse racing, etc.); taking a long shot; dark horse betting
to pierce a hole
piercing (esp. in the ear); piercing hole
chuck-farthing (game of throwing coins in a hole); pitch-farthing
men who have had sex with the same woman; (lit.) hole brothers
same hole (in which to live); gang; group
buttonhole
dark horse (candidate)
European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)
small gate in a mud or stone wall
finger hole (on a flute, bowling ball, etc.)
rathole; mousehole
round hole
(villains) of the same stripe; birds of a feather; (lit.) raccoon dogs of the same hole
posthole (archaeology)
bell-mouth spillway; morning glory spillway; glory hole spillway
(villains) of the same stripe; birds of a feather; (lit.) foxes of the same hole
pilot hole; rough hole; prepared hole
to each their own; different strokes for different folks; cut your coat to suit your cloth; (lit.) a crab digs a hole like its own shell
a burn hole
mortice; mortise
a small leak will sink a great ship
perforated coin
possible winner (in a horse race); third favorite
perforations (e.g. in film)
perforated ladle; slotted spoon
blind hole
kanji "hole" radical at top
gill slit; pharyngeal slit
to have a narrow view of things
split-eye needle
split-eye needle
needle with a normal eye
needle with a normal eye
needle with a normal eye
hexagon socket head; Allen socket head
cross-head screw; Phillips-head screw; Phillips screw
snake hibernation
to have a narrow view of things; (lit.) to peep at the sky through a keyhole
tone hole
Anagawa Station
Examples (19 in total)
They're digging a hole.
We've got to fill this hole with something.
There's a hole in it.