空洞

Chinese
 
emptied; leisure; air
emptied; leisure; air; sky; empty; in vain
 cave; hole
trad. (空洞) 空 洞
simp. #(空洞) 空 洞
anagram 洞空

Pronunciation

Noun

空洞

  1. cavity; hole; void

Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 孔 (“hole”) [map]
Variety Location Words
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

Adjective

空洞

  1. hollow; empty
  2. abstract; vacuous; hollow; shallow

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Japanese
Kanji in this term
空 洞
くう
Grade: 1		 どう
Grade: S
on’yomi

Pronunciation
    • IPA(key): [kɯ̟ᵝːdo̞ː]

    Noun

    空(くう)洞(どう) • (kūdō) 

    1. a hollow
      • 1924, 小川未明, 赤い船のお客:
        笛(ふえ)の中(なか)は、ただ一本(いっぽん)の空洞(くうどう)の竹(たけ)にしかすぎませんでした。
        Fue no naka wa, tada ippon no kūdō no take ni shika sugimasen deshita.
        The inside of the flute was nothing more than the hollow of a piece of bamboo.
    2. cave
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