空穴

Chinese

		emptied; leisure; air emptied; leisure; air; sky; empty; in vain	hole; cave
trad. (空穴)		空	穴
simp. #(空穴)		空	穴

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kǒngxué, kǒngxuè

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄥˇ ㄒㄩㄝˊ, ㄎㄨㄥˇ ㄒㄩㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hung¹ jyut⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kǒngxué
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄥˇ ㄒㄩㄝˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kǒngsyué
    • Wade–Giles: kʻung³-hsüeh²
    • Yale: kǔng-sywé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: koongshyue
    • Palladius: кунсюэ (kunsjue)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰʊŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕy̯ɛ³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan; variant in Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kǒngxuè
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄥˇ ㄒㄩㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kǒngsyuè
    • Wade–Giles: kʻung³-hsüeh⁴
    • Yale: kǔng-sywè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: koongshiueh
    • Palladius: кунсюэ (kunsjue)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰʊŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕy̯ɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hung¹ jyut⁶
    • Yale: hūng yuht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hung¹ jyt⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hung¹ yud⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hʊŋ⁵⁵ jyːt̚²/

Noun

空穴

1. cavity; hole
2. empty house
3. (electronics) (positive) hole; cavity
4. (physics, Mainland China) electron hole

   Synonym: 電洞／电洞 (diàndòng) (Hong Kong, Taiwan)

Synonyms

• (cavity):

Dialectal synonyms of 孔 (“hole”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		孔, 洞, 穴
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		孔, 洞, 孔洞, 空洞, 空穴
Mandarin	Beijing	窟窿
	Jinan	窟窿
	Luoyang	窟窿
	Wanrong	窟窿
	Xi'an	窟窿子, 窟窿
	Wuhan	窟窿, 窟眼, 洞洞, 洞
	Chengdu	窟窿, 洞洞, 洞
	Liuzhou	窿
	Yangzhou	洞, 窟窿
	Nanjing	窟窿
	Hefei	窟窿, 洞
	Singapore	洞
Cantonese	Guangzhou	窿, 咕窿
	Hong Kong	窿, 咕窿
	Taishan	孔
	Yangjiang	窿
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	窿
	Singapore (Guangfu)	窿
Gan	Nanchang	洞
Hakka	Meixian	窿仔, 窿空仔
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	空
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	空
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	空
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	空
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	空
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	空
Jin	Taiyuan	窟窿, 窟子
Northern Min	Jian'ou	川
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	空空
Southern Min	Xiamen	空, 空口
	Quanzhou	空
	Zhangzhou	空口
	Zhangzhou (Changtai)	空
	Taipei	空
	Penang (Hokkien)	空
	Singapore (Hokkien)	空
	Manila (Hokkien)	空
	Chaozhou	空
	Jieyang	空, 洞
	Haifeng	空
	Singapore (Teochew)	空
	Singapore (Hainanese)	空
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	窿
Wu	Suzhou	洞
	Wenzhou	洞, 窟, 窟窿
	Jinhua	窟窿
Xiang	Changsha	洞, 洞子
	Shuangfeng	眼貢, 洞