空穴來風

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Chinese

emptied; leisure; air
emptied; leisure; air; sky; empty; in vain
 
hole; cave to come
wind; news; style
wind; news; style; custom; manner
 
trad. (空穴來風)
simp. (空穴来风)
Literally: “wind from an empty cave”.

Etypology

From 《風賦》:

[Classical Chinese, trad.]
[Classical Chinese, simp.]
From: Song Yu, 《風賦
Zhǐ jù lái cháo, kōng xué lái fēng. [Pinyin]
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Pronunciation


Idiom

(deprecated template usage) 空穴來風

  1. (of a rumour, literary, dated) to be not completely unsound; to have a basis for its existence
  2. (of a rumour, in modern uses) to be completely unsound; to be utterly baseless