穴

hole

bucket

filling (up) a hole

pitfall

air hole

large hole

cave

grave (pit)

secret passage

gang

one hole

chuck-farthing (game of throwing coins in a hole)

same hole (in which to live)

volcanic cave traditionally said to be inhabited

two holes

being buried in the same grave

(villains) of the same stripe

spinycheek sleeper (Eleotris oxycephala)

the seven orifices of the head (eyes, nostrils, ear canals, mouth)

conger eel (esp. the common Japanese conger, Conger myriaster)

small-minded

(to be ashamed enough) to wish you could just disappear

common Japanese conger eel (Conger myriaster)

cluster of Kofun-period graves

pilot hole

to fill a hole with earth

gold mine

bear that hasn't entered hibernation

air vent (hole)

finger hole (on a flute, bowling ball, etc.)

cross-head screw

cave dweller

acupuncture point

pressure points (e.g. for application of moxa)

(staring) piercingly

(staring) piercingly

to have a hole

to cause a loss

perforations (e.g. in film)

Japanese badger (Meles meles anakuma)

round hole

to penetrate a body (e.g. with a spear or bullet)

flat or stone broke

(hole) punch

eye of a needle

pinhole

small gate in a mud or stone wall

possible winner (in a horse race)

hexagon socket head

hex socket head cap bolt

needle with a normal eye

pinhole camera

duck-billed eel (Nettastoma parviceps)

horizontal stone chamber

European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)

cellar

double penetration

rock cave

snubnosed eel (Simenchelys parasitica)

betting on an outsider (in horse racing, etc.)

curses come home to roost

dark horse (candidate)

cave dwelling

splendid garden eel (Gorgasia preclara)

grave

mortice

boring (a hole)

pierced

bell-mouth spillway

piercing (esp. in the ear)

anus

paper punch

anus

to fill with holes

hole

perforated ladle

riddled with holes

clearance hole (hole for a bolt, screw, etc., which is large enough to allow the thread, etc. to pass through)

cheese with holes in it (e.g. Swiss, Emmenthal)

drilling

buttonhole

anus

snake hibernation

storage pit (esp. Jomon to Yayoi periods)

posthole (archaeology)

a burn hole

anaguma castle (defensive opening)

knothole

perforated coin

perforated coin

(villains) of the same stripe

to have a narrow view of things

to have a narrow view of things

dark hole

to fill in a hole

men who have had sex with the same woman

American badger (Taxidea taxus)

tunnel tomb (Kofun period)

to have a narrow view of things

nothing ventured, nothing gained

Okuninushi

excavation

dragon's den

happy life partnership

spotted garden eel (Heteroconger hassi)

(villains) of the same stripe

kanji "hole" radical at top

crevice

blowhole

out of the frying pan into the fire

pit dwelling

lion's den

rathole

badger

anus

snagging eels

road taken by a Chinese ajari buddhist monk when he incurred the wrath of emperor Genso (685-762)

nesting hole

to dig one's own grave

pit dwelling

blind hole

lava cave

nostril

nostril

a small leak will sink a great ship

peephole

cave

sheep's ear abalone (Haliotis ovina)

good place not many people know about

a small leak will sink a great ship

to have a narrow view of things

honey badger (Mellivora capensis)

very old type of kiln made by digging a hole in the side of a hill

digger wasp

keyhole

swiftlet

burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia)

to find someone's weak spot

ferret badger (esp. the Chinese ferret-badger, Melogale moschata)

pit

giant's kettle

pore (of the skin)

to each their own

Japanese mud shrimp (Upogebia major)