空き

Japanese

Kanji in this term
空
あ Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Alternative spellings
明き 開き アキ

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) あき [àkí] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [a̠kʲi]

Noun

空(あ)き • (aki) 

1. room; space
2. a gap
3. unused time
4. a vacancy
5. (typography) whitespace before or after a character, especially a punctuation mark, such as the space after 。 、 」 』 ） etc. or before 「 『 （ etc., used for monospace typesettings (often spelled in katakana as アキ)

   二(に)分(ぶ)アキ

   nibu aki

   whitespace equal to half an em

   四(し)分(ぶ)アキ

   shibu aki

   whitespace equal to 1/4 of an em

   二(に)分(ぶ)四(し)分(ぶ)アキ

   nibu shibu aki

   whitespace equal to 3/4 of an em