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Trad. 竅
- hole
- opening
- orifice (of the human body)
- (fig.) key (to the solution of a problem)
Trad. 七竅
- the seven apertures of the human head: 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils, 1 mouth
Trad. 九竅
- nine orifices of the human body (eyes, nostrils, ears, mouth, urethra, anus)
Trad. 開竅
- to get it straight
- to start to understand things properly
- enlightenment dawns
Trad. 竅門兒
- a trick
- an ingenious method
- know-how
- the knack (of doing sth)
Trad. 一竅不通
- lit. doesn't (even) enter a single aperture (of one's head)
- I don't understand a word (idiom)
- it's all Greek to me
Trad. 七竅生煙
- lit. spouting smoke through the seven orifices (idiom)
- fig. to seethe with anger