Chinese symbol for “orifice”
窍
qiào
Traditional: 竅
hole; opening; orifice (of the human body); (fig.) key (to the solution of a problem)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for orifice is 窍 (qiào), defined as: hole; opening; orifice (of the human body); (fig.) key (to the solution of a problem).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 窍.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 诀窍 (訣竅) | jué qiào | secret; trick |
| 窍门 (竅門) | qiào mén | a trick; an ingenious method |
| 开窍 (開竅) | kāi qiào | to get it straight; to start to understand things properly |
| 一窍不通 (一竅不通) | yī qiào bù tōng | lit. doesn't (even) enter a single aperture (of one's head); I don't understand a word (idiom) |
| 心窍 (心竅) | xīn qiào | the mind; capacity for clear thinking |
| 鬼迷心窍 (鬼迷心竅) | guǐ mí xīn qiào | to be obsessed; to be possessed |
See also: Japanese symbol for “orifice”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.