アナ
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. hole; opening; orifice; perforation
Make an air passage hole on the opposite side.
Noun
2. pit; hollow; cavity; hole (e.g. in the ground)
Before that, check the black rock at the bottom of the hole.
3. burrow; den; lair; holt; hole
4. deficit; shortage; (financial) hole; loss
5. gap (left by a missing employee, team member, etc.); vacancy; opening
6. flaw; fault; defect; weak point; hole (in a theory, plan, etc.); loophole
That is precisely why there should have been no flaws in this plan.
7. good place not many people know about; well-kept secret
8. upset victory (with a large payoff); long shot; dark horse
9. (partitioned) box (type of floor seating in a traditional Japanese theatre)
theatre jargon
10. hiding place; hideout
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (75 in total)
gill slit; pharyngeal slit
knothole; peep-hole; (fig.) bad eyes; tunnel vision
anus; asshole; arsehole
Examples (40 in total)
They're digging a hole.
We've got to fill this hole with something.
The arrangement of the holes in the pillar had a meaning.