空洞

Chinese
 
emptied; leisure; air; sky; empty; in vain
 cave; hole
simp. and trad.
(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
Xi'an 窟窿子, 窟窿
Wuhan 窟窿, 窟眼, 洞洞, 洞
Chengdu 窟窿, 洞洞, 洞
Yangzhou 洞
Hefei 窟窿, 洞
Cantonese Guangzhou 窿, 咕窿
Hong Kong 窿, 咕窿
Gan Nanchang 洞
Hakka Meixian 窿仔, 窿空仔
Jin Taiyuan 窟窿, 窟子
Min Bei Jian'ou 川
Min Dong Fuzhou 空空
Min Nan Xiamen 空, 空口
Quanzhou 空
Zhangzhou 空口
Taipei 空
Philippines (Manila) 空
Chaozhou 空
Wu Suzhou 洞
Wenzhou 洞, 窟, 窟窿
Xiang Changsha 洞
Shuangfeng 眼貢, 洞

Adjective

空洞

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

Synonyms
  • (abstract): 抽象 (chōuxiàng)

Antonyms

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

Noun

空洞 (hiragana くうどう, rōmaji 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 (いっ)本 (ぽん)の空 (くう)洞 (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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