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

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)

#108 — dish, bowl

#109 — eye

#110 — spear, lance

#111 — arrow

#112 — stone, rock

#113 — to show, to display, to demonstrate, to reveal, to indicate, to exhibit

#114 — animal footprint

#115 — grain, cereal

#116 — hole, cave

#117 — to stand, to make erect, to establish

#118 — bamboo

#119 — rice

#120 — thin silk, fine thread

#120 — level, grade, class/rank

#121 — pot, jar

#122 — net

#123 — sheep, goat

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穴

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