空

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 3.2 Noun 3.2.1 Synonyms 3.3 Noun 3.4 Noun 3.5 Prefix 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Han character

空 (radical 116 穴+3, 8 strokes, cangjie input 十金一 (JCM), four-corner 3010₁, composition ⿱穴工)

1. sky, empty, hollow, bare, deserted

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 863, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25415
• Dae Jaweon: page 1289, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2719, character 8
• Unihan data for U+7A7A

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

空 (Yale hung1)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

空 (grade 1 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: くう (kū)
• Kun: から (kara), あく (aku), そら (sora)

[edit] Compounds

• • 空気
  • 空間
  • 空港
  • 空中
  • 空手
  • 真空
  • 架空
  • 航空
  • 青空
  • 航空便

[edit] Noun

空 (hiragana そら, romaji sora)

1. the sky

[edit] Synonyms

• 天 (てん, ten)

[edit] Noun

空 (hiragana から, romaji kara)

1. emptiness

[edit] Noun

空 (hiragana くう, romaji kū)

1. empty air

[edit] Prefix

空 (hiragana から, romaji kara)

1. empty
   • 空箱
2. ineffectual
   • 空振り
3. false
   • 空元気

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

空
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 공 (revised: gong, McCune-Reischauer: kong, Yale: kong)

• Name (hangeul): 빌 (revised: bil)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

空 (pinyin kōng (kong1), kǒng (kong3), kòng (kong4), Wade-Giles k'ung¹, k'ung³, k'ung⁴)