• hole;
  • cave;

It conveys meanings such as: hole, cave, pit, or depression in the ground.

Usage in Korean

It is placed at the "top" (head) position to form Chinese characters. When used as a radical, it mainly appears in characters related to "cave" or "house."

Representative examples include:

空 (empty)

窓 (window)

窮 (extreme)

竊 (steal)

究 (research)

Characters with

  • to investigate, to research, to study, to examine thoroughly;
  • empty, void, vacant, sky, space;
  • to exhaust, to reach the end, to be destitute, to be impoverished;
구멍
gumeong
hyeol
Kangxi radical:116
Strokes:5
Unicode:U+7A74
Cangjie input:
  • 十金 (JC)
Composition:
  • ⿱ 宀 八
Writing order
穴 Writing order

Neighboring radicals in the dictionary

References