Kanji
Readingあな
Frequency90%
Used in (113 in total)
hole; opening; pit; hollow; burrow; den; deficit
to have a hole; to be pierced (with a hole)
large hole; big deficit; heavy losses; long-shot win (in horse racing, etc.); big winnings (on a long shot)
pitfall; trap; pit
to cause a loss; to make a hole (in)
cave; cavern; den; grotto
riddled with holes; full of holes; full of flaws; full of loopholes; faulty
nesting hole; burrow; den
knothole; peep-hole; bad eyes
nostril; nostrils
cave; tunnel; tunnel tomb (Kofun period)
air hole; windhole; ventilator
pore (of the skin)
anus; asshole; bastard
filling (up) a hole; filling in (for a gap, vacancy, etc.); stopgap; making up (for a loss, damage, etc.); covering (a deficit); cloze deletion (test format)
grave (pit)
to fill in a hole; to plug a gap (money, personnel, etc.); to make up for a deficiency; to cover a deficit
little-known good place; good out-of-the-way place; well-kept secret place; hole-in-the-wall
secret passage; underground passage; loophole; hole one can go through; opening
cellar; cave; hole in the ground
to fill a hole with earth
excavation; digging
anus; asshole; arsehole
to find somebody's weak spot; (lit.) to drill a hole
to penetrate a body (e.g. with a spear or bullet); to breathe new life into; to provide a potential solution
peephole; spyhole; inspection hole; observation window
(to be ashamed enough) to wish you could just disappear; wanting to sink into the ground in shame
badger; Eurasian badger (Meles meles); defensive opening for shogi
eye of a needle
to fill with holes; to riddle (e.g. with bullets)
hole; hollow; pothole (road, pavement, etc.)
(villains) of the same stripe; birds of a feather; (lit.) badgers of the same hole
(staring) piercingly; (looking) hard
garden eel; conger eel (esp. the common Japanese conger, Conger myriaster)
volcanic cave traditionally said to be inhabited
cavern; grotto
air vent (hole)
(staring) piercingly; (looking) hard
pierced; drilled; perforated; hollow
if you curse someone, dig two graves
betting on an outsider (in horse racing, etc.); taking a long shot; dark horse betting
same hole (in which to live); gang; group
piercing (esp. in the ear); piercing hole
men who have had sex with the same woman; (lit.) hole brothers
dark horse (candidate)
cheese with holes in it (e.g. Swiss, Emmenthal)
Okuninushi; deity of magic and medicine later viewed as equivalent to Daikokuten and celebrated at Izumo Grand Shrine
snagging eels; ice fishing
small gate in a mud or stone wall
rathole; mousehole
small-minded; petty; cowardly; chicken-hearted
finger hole (flute, bowling ball, etc.)
defensive opening for shogi ("badger" or "anaguma" castle)
posthole (archaeology)
perforated coin
(hole) punch; stiletto
very old type of kiln made by digging a hole in the side of a hill
pilot hole; rough hole; prepared hole
to be like a frog in a well; to make (faulty) assumptions based on one's limited understanding of something; (lit.) to look at the skies through the eye of a needle
bell-mouth spillway; morning glory spillway; glory hole spillway
mortice; mortise
bear that hasn't entered hibernation
tunnel tomb (Kofun period)
a burn 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
perforated coin
splendid garden eel (Gorgasia preclara); orange-barred garden eel
clearance hole (hole for a bolt, screw, etc., which is large enough to allow the thread, etc. to pass through)
Okuninushi; deity of magic and medicine later viewed as equivalent to Daikokuten and celebrated at Izumo Grand Shrine
boring (a hole)
perforated ladle; slotted spoon
cross-head screw; Phillips-head screw; Phillips screw
needle with a normal eye
hexagon socket head; Allen socket head
to have a narrow view of things; (lit.) to peep at the sky through a keyhole
perforations (e.g. in film)
needle with a normal eye
kanji "hole" radical at top
giant's kettle; giant's cauldron; pothole
European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)
spotted garden eel (Heteroconger hassi)
digger wasp
honey badger (Mellivora capensis)
common Japanese conger eel (Conger myriaster)
Japanese badger (Meles meles anakuma)
spinycheek sleeper (Eleotris oxycephala); spined sleeper
duck-billed eel (Nettastoma parviceps)
snubnosed eel (Simenchelys parasitica)
American badger (Taxidea taxus)
burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia)
ferret badger (esp. the Chinese ferret-badger, Melogale moschata)