A nominal (Ba 1−x Ho x )Ti 1−x/4 O 3 (x = 0.01) (BHTH) ceramic with a single-phase tetragonal structure was prepared at 1400 °C using the solid-state reaction method. The analysis on the defect chemistry revealed that the real formula of BHTH is (Ba 1−x Ho 3x/4 )(Ti is known to be an amphoteric dopant in BaTiO 3 polycrystalline ceramic and its solid solubility is dependent on the Ba/Ti ratio and sintering temperature (T s ). In the Ti-rich case, Ho 3+ was considered to to occupy the Ba site to induce Ti vacancies and the solid solubility limit was relatively small, only x = ~1.4% at T s = 1400 °C; the formula was described as (Ba 1−x Ho x )Ti 1−x/4 O 3 10 . Higher T s is generally required for the incorporation of Ho 3+ into the Ti site because of a relatively larger ionic size of Ho 3+ compared to Ti 4+ (Table 1) 16 and TiO 6 octahedrons characteristic of the skeleton of the perovskite structure. In the Ba-rich case, the solubility limit was reported to be x = ~15% at T s = 1550 °C and the formula was described as Ba(Ti 1−x Ho x )O 3−x/2 with O vacancies 10,14,15 . However, Ti vacancies and O ones had not been confirmed in Ho-doped BaTiO 3 and one is hard to avoid questioning a single site-occupation mode due to the amphoteric nature of Ho 3+ . On the other hand, the structural information of BaTiO 3 doped with most rare earths such as La [17][18][19][20] , Ce