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Mandarin · pinyin kōng#

Meanings · kōng

  1. empty
  2. air
  3. sky
  4. in vain
Mandarin · pinyin kòng#

Meanings · kòng

  1. to empty
  2. vacant
  3. unoccupied
  4. space
  5. leisure
  6. free time
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kōng · empty, hollow, bare, deserted
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

hung1 · hung3

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character

  1. empty; hollow; void
  2. exhausted; emptied
  3. open; spacious; vast
  4. quiet and still; secluded
  5. lacking substance; fictitious; fabricated
  6. (Eastern Min) hungry
  7. air; sky; atmosphere
  8. space; outer space; cosmos; universe
  9. (Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism) sunyata; emptiness; void of the world of the senses
  10. (Taoism) emptiness and quiet
  11. in vain; for nothing
  12. only (left, remain, etc.)
  13. to exhaust
  14. to miss the target
  15. (Southern Min, Taiwanese Hakka) hole; cavity

character

  1. to make empty; to impoverish
  2. to leave empty; to leave blank
  3. vacant; unoccupied; available
  4. spare time; free time; leisure
  5. empty space; room
  6. (of time) gap; interval; break
  7. chance; opportunity
  8. (Southern Min) zero

character

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 孔 (kǒng, “hole; cave; mouth”)

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