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)
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
cave; tunnel; tunnel tomb (Kofun period)
air hole; windhole; ventilator
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)
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
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
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
(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
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
small-minded; petty; cowardly; chicken-hearted
finger hole (flute, bowling ball, etc.)
defensive opening for shogi ("badger" or "anaguma" castle)
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
bear that hasn't entered hibernation
tunnel tomb (Kofun period)
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 small leak will sink a great ship
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
perforated ladle; slotted spoon
cross-head screw; Phillips-head screw; Phillips screw
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)
to have a narrow view of things
kanji "hole" radical at top
giant's kettle; giant's cauldron; pothole
European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)
spotted garden eel (Heteroconger hassi)
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)