填空

Chinese

		to fill in	emptied; leisure; air emptied; leisure; air; sky; empty; in vain
trad. (填空)		填	空
simp. #(填空)		填	空

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tiánkòng

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢˊ ㄎㄨㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tin⁴ hung¹

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tiân-khong / thiân-khang

  (Teochew, Peng'im): tiêng⁵ kong¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tiánkòng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢˊ ㄎㄨㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tiánkòng
    • Wade–Giles: tʻien²-kʻung⁴
    • Yale: tyán-kùng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tyankonq
    • Palladius: тянькун (tjanʹkun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn³⁵ kʰʊŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tin⁴ hung¹
    • Yale: tìhn hūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tin⁴ hung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: tin⁴ hung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn²¹ hʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiân-khong
    • Tâi-lô: tiân-khong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dienqofng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tiɛn²⁴⁻²² kʰɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɛn²⁴⁻²² kʰɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɛn¹³⁻²² kʰɔŋ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thiân-khang
    • Tâi-lô: thiân-khang
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tienqafng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰiɛn²⁴⁻²² kʰaŋ⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: tiêng⁵ kong¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thiêng khong
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰieŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ kʰoŋ³³/

Verb

填⫽空 (verb-object)

1. to fill a vacant position; to fill a vacancy
2. to fill in the blanks (in a testpaper)

Synonyms

• (to fill in the blanks):

Dialectal synonyms of 填空 (“to fill in the blanks (in a test paper)”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		填空, 填充
Mandarin	Taiwan	填充
	Singapore	填充
Cantonese	Hong Kong	填充
Southern Min	Xiamen	填空

Derived terms

• 完形填空 (wánxíng tiánkòng)