窝
nest; pit or hollow on the human body; lair; den; place; to harbor or shelter; to hold in check; to bend; classifier for litters and broods
12 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,097 U+7A9D
How 窝 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
穴 (semantic, “cave”) + 呙 (phonetic, wāi)
How to remember it
hollow · Heisig RSH #2364
穴 hole + esophagus
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 呙
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 呙 (wāi) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 呙 sound component | wāi | to chat, to gossip, to jaw, to talk; mouth |
| 锅 | guō | cooking-pot, saucepan |
| 祸 | huò | misfortune, disaster, calamity |
| 蜗 | wō | snail; Eulota callizoma |
| 剐 | guǎ | to cut; to sever flesh from bone |
| 娲 | wā | a goddess, the mythological sister and successor to Fuxi |
| 莴 | wō | lettuce |
| 埚 | guō | crucible |
| 脶 | luó | fingerprint |
Words containing 窝
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 心窝儿 | xīn wō r | erhua form of 心窩|心窝[xin1 wo1] |
| 调三窝四 | tiáo sān wō sì | to sow the seeds of discord everywhere (idiom) |
| 安乐窝 | ān lè wō | comfortable niche |
| 窝里反 | wō li fǎn | see 窩裡鬥|窝里斗[wo1 li5 dou4] |
| 萨拉热窝 | Sà lā rè wō | Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 太阳窝 | tài yáng wō | temple (on the sides of human head) |
| 窝里斗 | wō li dòu | internal strife (family, group, etc) |
| 兔子不吃窝边草 | tù zi bù chī wō biān cǎo | (lit.) a rabbit never eats the grass beside its own burrow (saying); (fig.) even a scoundr… |
| 金窝银窝不如自己的狗窝 | jīn wō yín wō bù rú zì jǐ de gǒu wō | there's no place like home (idiom) |
| 窝子 | wō zi | lair; den; stronghold |
| 心窝 | xīn wō | chest area around the heart; (fig.) heart; innermost feelings |
| 窝心 | wō xīn | aggrieved; dejected; (Tw, southern China) to be moved by a kind gesture etc; to feel grati… |
| 面窝 | miàn wō | Chinese doughnut |
| 窝里横 | wō li hèng | (coll.) meek and civil in public, but a tyrant at home |
| 窝主 | wō zhǔ | person who harbors criminals; receiver (of stolen goods) |
| 打窝 | dǎ wō | (angling) to throw groundbait into an area of water |
| 窝工 | wō gōng | (of workers) to have no work to do; to be underutilized (due to lack of supplies, poor org… |
| 眼窝 | yǎn wō | eye socket |
| 老窝 | lǎo wō | nest; den (for animals); (fig.) lair; hideout (for criminals) |
| 窝点 | wō diǎn | lair; den (of illegal activities) |