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空室清野

Mandarin · pinyin kōng shì qīng yě

empty room, clean field (idiom); clean out everything to leave nothing for the enemy
scorched earth policy

Characters in this entry

空: kōng · empty, hollow, bare, deserted
室: shì · room, home, house, chamber; 13th lunar mansion, determinative star α Pegasi (Markab)
清: qīng · clear, pure, clean; peaceful
野: yě · open country, field; wilderness

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

1–4–1–3 · kong1 shi4 qing1 ye3

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Compare dictionary sources 1 Cantonese reading

hung1 sat1 cing1 je5

Cantonese word readings for 空室清野. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

hung1 sat1 cing1 je5

Pleco · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Word reading; meanings not aligned.