あな
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. hole; opening; perforation
also read めど for this sense
Noun
2. pit; hollow; hole (in the ground, etc.)
3. burrow; den; lair; holt; hole
4. deficit; shortage; missing person (in a team, meeting, etc.)
5. vacancy; opening
Noun
Suffix
6. flaw
7. well-kept secret place
8. upset victory (with a large payoff)
9. pit (of a theater)
Noun
10. hiding place; hideout
Archaic
Noun
Suffix
11. underbelly (of society, etc.)
Pitch accent
Top 5000
Used in vocabulary (82 in total)
cave; cavern; den; grotto
cellar; cave; hole in the ground
volcanic cave traditionally said to be inhabited
pitfall; trap; pit
cavern; grotto
to have a hole; to be pierced (with a hole)
keyhole
to cause a loss; to make a hole (in)
knothole; peep-hole; bad eyes
pit; shaft
pore (of the skin)
large hole; big deficit; heavy losses; long-shot win (in horse racing, etc.); big winnings (on a long shot)
keyhole
pore (of the skin)
to fill in a hole; to plug a gap (money, personnel, etc.); to make up for a deficiency; to cover a deficit
secret passage; underground passage; loophole; hole one can go through; opening
(villains) of the same stripe; birds of a feather; (lit.) badgers of the same hole
(staring) piercingly; (looking) hard
excavation; digging
nesting hole; burrow; den
nostril; nostrils
cave; tunnel; tunnel tomb (Kofun period)
anus; asshole; bastard
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)
grave (pit)
drilling
air vent (hole)
buttonhole
rathole; mousehole
clearance hole (hole for a bolt, screw, etc., which is large enough to allow the thread, etc. to pass through)
mortice; mortise
boring (a hole)
riddled with holes; full of holes; full of flaws; full of loopholes; faulty
air hole; windhole; ventilator
little-known good place; good out-of-the-way place; well-kept secret place; hole-in-the-wall
badger; Eurasian badger (Meles meles); defensive opening for shogi
to find somebody's weak spot; (lit.) to drill a hole
peephole; spyhole; inspection hole; observation window
to fill a hole with earth
anus; asshole; arsehole
anus; asshole; arsehole
eye of a needle
(villains) of the same stripe; birds of a feather; (lit.) badgers of the same hole
hole; hollow; pothole (road, pavement, etc.)
pierced; drilled; perforated; hollow
pinhole
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
dark horse (candidate)
small gate in a mud or stone wall
round hole
finger hole (flute, bowling ball, etc.)
posthole (archaeology)
pilot hole; rough hole; prepared hole
bell-mouth spillway; morning glory spillway; glory hole spillway
a burn hole
European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)
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
perforated coin
perforations (e.g. in film)
perforated ladle; slotted spoon
blind hole
kanji "hole" radical at top
gill slit; pharyngeal slit
to have a narrow view of things
split-eye needle
split-eye needle
needle with a normal eye
needle with a normal eye
needle with a normal eye
hexagon socket head; Allen socket head
cross-head screw; Phillips-head screw; Phillips screw
snake hibernation
to have a narrow view of things; (lit.) to peep at the sky through a keyhole
tone hole
Anagawa Station
Examples (20 in total)
They're digging a hole.
We've got to fill this hole with something.
There's a hole in it.