English
- hole, opening, aperture
- hole
- opening
- orifice (of the human body)
- (fig.) key (to the solution of a problem)
- human's opening
粵語
- 人嘅孔洞，即係口、鼻、耳等等
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 竅
- 竅門hiu3 mun4
a trick
- 開竅hoi1 hiu3
to get it straight
- 心竅sam1 hiu3
the mind
- 通竅tung1 hiu3
understand things; be sensible or reasonable
- 七竅cat1 hiu3
the seven apertures of the human head: 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils, 1 mouth
- 訣竅kyut3 kiu3
secret
- 不開竅bat1 hoi1 hiu3
unable to understand
- 一竅不通jat1 hiu3 bat1 tung1
lit. doesn't (even) enter a single aperture (of one's head)
- 好竅hou2 kiu2
- 出竅ceot1 hiu3
- 死竅sei2 kiu2
- 度竅dok6 kiu2
to think of ideas; to come up with a plausible solution for a problem
- 九竅gau2 kiu3
nine orifices of the human body (eyes, nostrils, ears, mouth, urethra, anus)
- 絕竅zyut6 kiu2
- 冇竅mou5 kiu2
- 鬼迷心竅gwai2 mai4 sam1 hiu3
to be obsessed
- 七竅生煙cat1 hiu3 sang1 jin1
lit. spouting smoke through the seven orifices (idiom)
- 諗竅nam2 kiu2
- 竅門兒kiu3 mun4 ji4
erhua form of 竅門|窍门[qiao4 men2]
- 啱竅ngaam1 kiu2
- 靈魂出竅ling4 wan4 ceot1 hiu3
out-of-body experience
- 財迷心竅coi4 mai4 sam1 hiu3
mad about money (idiom)
- 絕世好竅zyut6 sai3 hou2 kiu2
- 七竅冒菸cat1 hiu3 mou6 jin1