DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

空殼公司

简空壳公司 · 繁空殼公司

Mandarin · pinyin kōng ké gōng sī

shell company; shell corporation

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

空: kōng · empty, hollow, bare, deserted
殼: Look up this written character
公: gōng · fair, equitable; public; duke
司: sī · take charge of, control, manage; officer
壳: ké · casing, shell, husk

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

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

1–2–1–1 · kong1 ke2 gong1 si1

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

4character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

空殼公司 · find source passages ↗ · 空壳公司 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 1 sense · 1 Cantonese reading

Rime Cantonese 粵拼

hung1 hok3 gung1 si1

Cantonese word readings for 空殼公司. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

CanCLID contributors · CC BY 4.0 · source & license · Data pack

Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

noun

shell company

Source page · dump 2026-09-02 · Contributors & history

Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source & license · Data pack