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 Prefix 3.1.1 Derived terms 3.2 Etymology 1 3.2.1 Noun 3.3 Etymology 2 3.3.1 Noun 3.3.2 Noun 3.3.2.1 Synonyms 3.3.3 Noun 3.3.4 Noun 3.3.5 Prefix 3.3.6 Prefix 3.3.6.1 Derived terms 3.3.7 Noun 3.3.8 Kanji 3.3.8.1 Readings 3.3.8.2 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[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] Prefix

空 (hiragana うつ, romaji utsu)

1. empty

[edit] Derived terms

• 空蝉 (utsusemi)

[edit] Etymology 1

/utuho/: utupo > utuɸo > utuwo > utuo. See also utsubo.

[edit] Noun

空 (hiragana うつお, romaji utsuo, historical hiragana うつほ)

1. empty
2. hollow

[edit] Etymology 2

Similar etymology to utsuo. As /h/ gradually change from from [p] > [ɸ] > [w] > [Ø], the phoneme was voiced to [b] in order to maintain it.

[edit] Noun

空 (hiragana うつぼ, romaji utsubo)

1. empty
2. hollow

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空 (hiragana そら, romaji sora)

1. the sky

[edit] Synonyms

• 天 (てん, ten)

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空 (hiragana から, romaji kara)

1. emptiness

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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

[edit] Prefix

空 (hiragana むな, romaji muna)

1. empty

[edit] Derived terms

• 空しい (munashii)
• 空言 (munakoto)

[edit] Noun

空 (hiragana うろ, romaji uro)

1. hollow

[edit] Kanji

空 (grade 1 kanji)

[edit] Readings

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

[edit] Compounds

• 青空 aozora - blue sky
• 青空市場 aozora ichiba - open air market
• 冬空 fuyuzora - winter sky
• 空っぽ karappo - void
• 空手 karate - karate
• 空気 kūki - air, atmosphere
• 空間 kūkan - space, room, airspace
• 空港 kūkō - airport
• 空中 kūchū - in the air, aerial
• 空輸 kūyu - spacecraft
• 空洞 kūdō - grotto, cave
• 空腹 kūfuku - empty belly
• 空白 kūhaku - void
• 空席 kūseki - vacant seat
• 真空 shinkū - vacuum, void
• 架空 kakū - fiction
• 虚空 kokū - void, space, void, empty
• 航空 kōkū - aviation
• 航空便 kōkūbin - airmail, postal transport by airplane
• 空き缶 akikan - empty box
• 空瓶 akibin - empty bottle
• 空き巣ねらい akisunerai - burglar
• 空しい munashii - void, empty

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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)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

空 (không, khỏng, cung, khung)