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; (fig.) bad eyes; tunnel vision
cave; tunnel; tunnel tomb (Kofun period)
air hole; windhole; air vent; deep cave from which cold wind blows
to fill in a hole; to plug a gap (money, personnel, etc.); to make up for a deficiency; to cover a deficit
filling (up) a hole; filling in (for a gap, vacancy, etc.); stopgap; making up (for a loss, damage, etc.); covering (a deficit); fill-in-the-blank activity
good place not many people know about; great little-known spot; good out-of-the-way place; betting booth (at a racecourse)
secret passage; underground passage; loophole; hole one can go through; opening
cellar; cave; hole in the ground
to find someone's weak spot; (lit.) to drill a hole
to fill a hole with earth
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); anaguma castle (defensive opening)
to fill with holes; to riddle (e.g. with bullets)
hole; hollow; pothole (road, pavement, etc.)
(staring) piercingly; (looking) hard
(villains) of the same stripe; birds of a feather; (lit.) badgers of the same hole
conger eel (esp. the common Japanese conger, Conger myriaster); garden eel
volcanic cave traditionally said to be inhabited
(staring) piercingly; (looking) hard
pierced; drilled; perforated; hollow
curses come home to roost; (lit.) if you curse someone, dig two graves
betting on an outsider (in horse racing, etc.); taking a long shot; dark horse betting
chuck-farthing (game of throwing coins in a hole); pitch-farthing
piercing (esp. in the ear); piercing hole
fill-in-the-blank question; cloze test (i.e. text with words removed)
men who have had sex with the same woman; (lit.) hole brothers
same hole (in which to live); gang; group
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
fishing by dropping a line between rocks or concrete tetrapods; ice fishing (esp. for smelt); sniggling (fishing for eels by thrusting a baited hook into their dens)
small gate in a mud or stone wall
finger hole (on a flute, bowling ball, etc.)
small-minded; petty; cowardly; chicken-hearted
(villains) of the same stripe; birds of a feather; (lit.) raccoon dogs of the same hole
anaguma castle (defensive opening)
European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)
(villains) of the same stripe; birds of a feather; (lit.) foxes of the same hole
bell-mouth spillway; morning glory spillway; glory hole spillway
very old type of kiln made by digging a hole in the side of a hill
giant's kettle; giant's cauldron; pothole
pilot hole; rough hole; prepared hole
bear that hasn't entered hibernation
to have a narrow view of things; (lit.) to peek at the sky through the eye of a needle
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
horizontal stone chamber; corridor-type tunnel tomb
possible winner (in a horse race); third favorite
tunnel tomb (Kofun period)
Bulwer's petrel (Bulweria bulwerii)
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)
perforated ladle; slotted spoon
Okuninushi; deity of magic and medicine later viewed as equivalent to Daikokuten and celebrated at Izumo Grand Shrine
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
to have a narrow view of things; (lit.) to peek at the sky through the eye of a needle
kanji "hole" radical at top
spotted garden eel (Heteroconger hassi)
honey badger (Mellivora capensis)
common Japanese conger eel (Conger myriaster); whitespotted conger
Japanese badger (Meles meles anakuma)
spinycheek sleeper (Eleotris oxycephala); spined sleeper
duck-billed eel (Nettastoma parviceps)
snubnosed eel (Simenchelys parasitica)
sheep's ear abalone (Haliotis ovina)
American badger (Taxidea taxus)
ferret badger (esp. the Chinese ferret-badger, Melogale moschata)
Japanese mud shrimp (Upogebia major)
burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia)