空
Meanings
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- 1.empty
- 2.air
- 3.sky
- 4.in vain
- 1.to empty
- 2.vacant
- 3.unoccupied
- 4.space
- 5.leisure
- 6.free time
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Wiktionary
- 1.empty; hollow; void
- 2.exhausted; emptied
- 3.open; spacious; vast
- 4.quiet and still; secluded
- 5.lacking substance; fictitious; fabricated
- 6.hungry
- 7.air; sky; atmosphere
- 8.space; outer space; cosmos; universe
- 9.sunyata; emptiness; void of the world of the senses
- 10.emptiness and quiet
- 11.in vain; for nothing
- 12.only (left, remain, etc.)
- 13.to exhaust
- 14.to miss the target
- 15.hole; cavity
- 16.to make empty; to impoverish
- 17.to leave empty; to leave blank
- 18.vacant; unoccupied; available
- 19.spare time; free time; leisure
- 20.empty space; room
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kʰoːŋ, *kʰoːŋs): semantic 穴 (“cave, hole”) + phonetic 工 (OC *koːŋ). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(g/k)uŋ (“hole; orifice; inner part”). 孔 (OC *kʰloːŋʔ, “hole”) is probably the endoactive derivation of 空 (OC *kʰoːŋ, “hollow; empty”) (Schuessler, 2007). Cognate with Tibetan ཁུང (khung, “hole”), Jingpho ladi hku (“nostril”), Chepang घाङ् (gʰaŋ, “hole”), Burmese ခေါင်း (hkaung:, “cavity”), Naxi ko³³ (“cave; hole; pit”) (STEDT). See also 坑 (OC *kʰraːŋ, “pit”) and 肛 (OC *kroːŋ, *qʰroːŋ, “anus”), which may or may not be related.
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
冰箱空了。
The fridge is empty.
这是空的。
This is empty.
空調故障了。
The air conditioner doesn't work.
冰箱是空的。
The fridge is empty.
湯姆是空少。
Tom is a flight attendant.
箱子不是空的。
The box wasn't empty.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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