surname Dou
hole / aperture / (anatomy) cavity / sinus

竇 character breakdown

cave / cavity / hole / acupuncture point / Taiwan pr. [xue4]

= + : Xu Xian presents his newest piece of art: Cave paintings painted on a gigantic eight-ball. Somehow he managed to set it up inside the elevators entrance. For his great artistic achievement, he gained a honorary doctor, and proudly wears his hard earned graduation cap.
to sell / to betray / to spare no effort / to show off or flaunt

= + + : Mahatma Gandhi (m) wants to get rid of his worldly possessions and sets up a flea market in the airplane's bathroom (ai4). He displays a cross (十), a sickle (㇖) and a skull (头) which he wants to sell (卖), so he attached price tags to all of them.

Characters with 竇 as component

竇 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 竇

mastoid antrum (bones at the back of tympanic chamber)
Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), Jesuit missionary and translator in Ming China
Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), Jesuit missionary and translator in Ming China / erroneous spelling of 利瑪竇|利玛窦
(lit.) love aperture / (fig.) interest in love matters
first awakening of love (usually of a girl) (idiom)
dog hole / gap caused by missing teeth / fig. den of thieves
dog hole wide open (idiom); fig. gap caused by missing teeth (used mockingly)
Matthew / St Matthew the evangelist / less common variant of 馬太|马太[Ma3 tai4] (preferred by the Catholic Church)
Gospel according to St Matthew
(literary) doubts / suspicions / cause for suspicion
The Injustice to Dou E (popular drama by 關漢卿|关汉卿[Guan1 Han4 qing1])
cellar / crypt
sinus (anatomy) / subterranean passage
wicker door, hole window (idiom); fig. wretched hovel / living in poverty
wicker door, hole window (idiom); fig. wretched hovel / living in poverty
sphenoidal sinus
to close doors and block openings (idiom); mounting a strict defense
frontal sinus
Feng Doubo or Feng Wu (1672-), calligrapher of the Ming-Qing transition / also called 馮武|冯武[Feng2 Wu3]

Sentences with 竇

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