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Trad. 蘆洞
- Rodong or Nodong, series of North Korean medium-range missiles
Trad. 樹洞
- tree hollow
- (slang) anonymous platform for sharing secrets
- (slang) confidant
Trad. 窯洞
- yaodong (a kind of cave dwelling in the Loess Plateau in northwest China)
- CL:孔[kong3]
Trad. 洞口縣
- Dongkou, a county in Shaoyang City 邵陽市|邵阳市[Shao4 yang2 Shi4], Hunan
- Renzidong palaeolithic archaeological site at Fanchang 繁昌[Fan2 chang1], Anhui
- air raid shelter; bomb shelter
- (fig.) place that protects bad people; hideout
Trad. 藏經洞
- the Library Cave, a sealed cave (Cave 17) in the Mogao Caves 莫高窟[Mo4 gao1 ku1], where thousands of manuscripts were discovered in 1900
Trad. 洪洞縣
- Hongtong county in Linfen 臨汾|临汾[Lin2 fen2], Shanxi
Trad. 呂洞賓
- Lü Dongbin (796-), Tang Dynasty scholar, one of the Eight Immortals 八仙[Ba1 xian1]
Trad. 開腦洞
- to blow people's minds with highly imaginative, bizarre ideas
Trad. 鬧洞房
- disturbing the privacy of bridal room (Chinese custom where guests banter with and play pranks on the newlyweds)
Trad. 張之洞
- Zhang Zhidong (1837-1909), prominent politician in late Qing
Trad. 洞房花燭
- bridal room and ornamented candles
- wedding festivities (idiom)
Trad. 別有洞天
- place of charm and beauty
- scenery of exceptional charm
- completely different world
Trad. 洞若觀火
- lit. to see sth as clearly as one sees a blazing fire (idiom)
- fig. to grasp the situation thoroughly
- lit. to pull a snake from its hole
- to expose a malefactor (idiom)
- (of an argument, theory etc) full of flaws (idiom)
Trad. 腦洞大開
- imaginative
- to have one's mind buzzing with ideas
Trad. 空洞無物
- empty cave, nothing there (idiom); devoid of substance
- nothing new to show
Trad. 克孜爾千佛洞
- Kezil thousand-Buddha grotto in Baicheng 拜城, Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区, Xinjiang
Trad. 庫木吐拉千佛洞
- Kumutula thousand-Buddha grotto in Kuqa, Xinjiang
- the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves, in the Turpan Basin, Xinjiang
Trad. 小洞不補大洞吃苦
- A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (idiom); a stitch in time saves nine