窟 — Chinese character
窟
kū
hole, cave; cellar; underground
- Pinyin
- kū
- Radical
- 116 ⽳ (Cave)
- Strokes
- 13
- Components
- 穴 屈
- Formation
- pictophonetic — cave; meaning component 穴; sound component 屈
- Japanese
- 窟 as a kanji
Common words with 窟
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 贫民窟 (貧民窟) | pín mín kū | slum housing |
| 石窟 | shí kū | rock cave; grotto |
| 洞窟 | dòng kū | a cave |
| 窟窿 | kū long | hole; pocket |
| 魔窟 | mó kū | lit. nest of devils; place occupied by sinister forces |
| 狡兔三窟 | jiǎo tù sān kū | lit. a crafty rabbit has three burrows; a sly individual has more than one plan to fall back on (idiom) |
| 四大石窟 | sì dà shí kū | the four great caves, namely: Longmen Grottoes 龙门石窟 (Lóng mén Shí kū) at Luoyang, Henan, Yungang Caves 云冈石窟 (Yún gāng Shí kū) at Datong, Shanxi, Mogao Caves 莫高窟 |
| 窟窿眼 | kū long yǎn | small hole |
| 窟臀 | kū tún | buttocks (dialect) |
| 销金窟 (銷金窟) | xiāo jīn kū | money squandering establishment (e.g. gambling den, brothel etc) |
窟 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.