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空
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Definitions
- 1. to empty
- 2. vacant
- 3. unoccupied
- 4. space
- 5. leisure
- 6. free time
Example Sentences
1 shown空 號。
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 空
moonwalk (dance)
poor prospects in the short term (finance)
space shuttle
air route
married stewardess of mature age
affine space (math.)
aerial ropeway
(military) flyover
(idiom) to suffer the departure of sb (talented staff or one's spouse etc) and a financial loss as well; to get burned both romantically and financially
jejunum (empty gut, middle segment of small intestine between duodenum 十二指腸|十二指肠[shí èr zhǐ cháng] and ileum 回腸|回肠[huí cháng])
to just scrape through with a narrow pass (in an exam)
air base
Hubble Space Telescope
to set sth aside
shell company; shell corporation
to make time
NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, agency of US government
hyperspace
to drain out; to empty
International Air Transport Association (IATA)
Northwest Airlines
stewardess
air purifier
space of sections (math.)
air freight (cost of air transport)
a magnificent and unprecedented event (idiom)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
to drop from the sky
navy and air force
People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF)
unprecedented and never to be duplicated
to make a journey for nothing
lit. just sitting and eating, one can deplete even a mountain of wealth (idiom)
Xuankong Temple or Suspended Temple near Yanyuan in Shanxi
four-dimensional space (math.)
bear market
Riemannian space (physics)
Chinese yo-yo
Delta Air Lines, Inc., airline headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia
Japan Airlines (JAL)
time travel
anti-aircraft gun
air fryer
cavity
shallow
vague and general
moonwalk (dance)
an empty stomach
to short-sell (finance)
empty-handed
airmail
outer space
void
aviation industry
space agency
empty-handed (idiom); fig. not receiving anything
All Nippon Airways (ANA)
using a wicker basket to draw water (idiom); wasted effort
vacancy
fabrication relying on nothing (idiom); frame-up
gunship (aircraft)
lit. the four elements are vanity (idiom)
deep space (outer space)
astronaut
to make an air raid
spaceship
space bar (keyboard)
nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
to return empty (i.e. to drive back with no passengers or freight)
air force
empty talk
space exploration
not a soul in sight (idiom)
empty
coordinate space
to hang in the air
having elements from another time or place
China United Airlines
air
in debt
to fill a job vacancy
to travel through time
anti-aircraft fire
to leave blank space in a document
vacuum tube
flight attendant
cyberspace
to steal everything
Amoghasiddhi Buddha
upside
to stay home alone (of married woman)
backward somersault
gap
space tourism
overhead
low altitude
air war
empty place
baseless (lie)
anti-aircraft defense
karate
naval and air military base
spacewalk
air dose
Air France
night sky
cyberspace
air pollution
atmospheric drag
evaporative air conditioner
alley-oop (basketball)
empty promises
blank check
topless car wash
daydream
to have leisure time
aircraft
air-to-surface (missile)
carrier-based vanguard group (CBVG)
air terminal
three-dimensional space
BASE Jumping
space station
drone equipped for aerial photography
empty room, clean field (idiom); clean out everything to leave nothing for the enemy
subspace (math.)
American Airlines
vacuous reputation
Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC)
symmetric space (math.)
the eagle soars in the sky (citation from Mao Zedong)
vacant room
outer space
empty words
ventilation; air circulation
unprecedented
orbiting space station
cavity
extremely destitute (idiom)
Air Waybill (AWB)
China Airlines (Taiwan)
to sell short (finance)
aeronautics
airline
aerodynamics
the eye can see nothing worthwhile all around (idiom); arrogant
to fail
air commodore
aviation
pretentious and vacuous person
air traffic controller
Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), world body of gliding and aeronautic sports
flip
see 蕹菜[wèng cài]
cavity wall
starry sky
Jett8 Airlines Cargo (based in Singapore)
vacuum
(literary) the vast sky
phase space (math., ordinary differential equations)
empty and quiet
airmail letter
to embezzle by adding to the payroll employees existing in name only
high altitude sickness
see 放空擋|放空挡[fàng kōng dǎng]
visuo-spatial sketchpad
Deutsche Lufthansa AG
wide sea and sky (idiom); boundless open vistas
vector space
emptiness
Aviation Industries of China (AVIC)
hopes are dashed
idle
Akasagarbha Bodhisattva
sense of being in another time and place
on an empty stomach
empty
to sweep clean
the empty city stratagem (in which Zhuge Liang presents himself as unperturbed while making it evident that his city is undefended, hoping his adversary will suspect an ambush)
vector space
to fail to achieve something; to be fruitless
air conditioned vehicle
aerodynamic force
Air Force One, US presidential jet
neutral gear
blank
flow of air
midair
nonempty (set)
idle
to launch into space
vacuum pump
Hong Kong Dragon Airlines (operating as Dragonair), Hong Kong-based international airline
air crash
to soar
army, navy and air force
to have time (to do sth)
idle clamor
space exploration
Paknampho city, Thailand
air conditioning
Emirates (airline)
wind does not come from an empty cave without reason
stewardess
petty thief (lit. quick fingered and vanish)
a common occurrence (idiom)
aerial cartwheel
to excavate
EVA Air, Taiwanese international airline
power vacuum
time travel
affine subspace (math.)
aircraft carrier
aviation industry
air lock
vacancy
damaged by groundless slander (idiom)
Air France
scarce
to dig for thoughts (idiom); to search everything for an answer
to rise to the sky
liar
to float in the air
flag carrier
idle
to overturn empty convention, and display originality (idiom); new and different ideas
double glazing
blank space
China Eastern Airlines
Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers from the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记[xī yóu jì]
lit. wind from an empty cave (idiom)
time and place
be high up in the sky
useless person
to swindle people by posing as a reputable operator
incomplete meal of a single dish
to hollow out
in the sky
air self-defense force
the multitudes come out from everywhere, emptying every alleyway (to celebrate)
window period (time between infection and the appearance of detectable antibodies)
to airdrop
air-to-air missile
paratroopers
spacious and empty
(of a married woman) to stay home alone
moduli space (math.)
territorial air space
space
empty hand, empty fist (idiom); having nothing to rely on
Korean Air, South Korea's main airline
parallel universe
to clear
Yukon (Canadian territory adjacent to Alaska)
empty cave, nothing there (idiom); devoid of substance
time travel
central air conditioning
empty
to hijack (a plane)
phony
empty nest
space probe
topological space (math.)
empty; deserted
gap
aviation science
Special Air Service (SAS)
like a heavenly steed, soaring across the skies (idiom)
spacesuit
to make empty promises
prattle
disconnected phone number
high-to-medium-altitude air defense (HIMAD)
aerogram
overhead
China Eastern Airlines
to build (a hut etc) on stilts
American Airlines
gap (between two objects)
the sky hangs low over the Yangtze, empty as far as the eye can see (idiom); nothing to see to the broad horizon
openwork
International Space Station
spare time
air and space agency
Space Shuttle, US spacecraft system (1981-2011)
airfield
empty
hollow
impractical dreamer
air sampler
the eye can see nothing worthwhile all around (idiom); arrogant
air conditioning
all one's hopes and efforts come to nothing
army, navy, air force
Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
utopian socialism
hollow
macaroni
to take some time out
Mount Aconcagua, Argentina, the highest point in the Western Hemisphere
to buy on margin (finance)
air-to-air missile
to empty (a bag)
hanging gardens (Babylon etc)
Scandinavian Airlines (SAS)
diabolo
(acrobatics) front flip
manned orbiting space station
air sampling
to find the time to do sth
air force
to return empty-handed
hollow ball
dogfight (of planes)
Massive Ordinance Air Blast (MOAB), a powerful American bomb
a clear and boundless sky
to take refuge in religious life
airline steward
Cerro Aconcagua, mountain in the Americas
space capsule
Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记[xī yóu jì]
null value (in a relational database)
to take advantage of a loophole; to exploit an advantage; to seize the opportunity (esp. to do sth bad)
having nothing (idiom); utterly destitute
air-to-surface missile
electron hole (physics)
to fail; to fall through; to come to nothing
Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong-based airline
crack
long-winded empty talk
air traffic control
Airbus (aerospace company)
to sell short (finance)
to open an aperture
lit. to rush at thin air
pavilion in the air (idiom); unrealistic Utopian construction
in midair
to coast along in neutral gear (in a car)
whiteout
space station
empty set (set theory)
a worthless piece of paper (idiom)
semantic space
China Air Transport Association (CATA)
the people are gone and the place is empty (idiom)
(lit.) to fire blank shots
sky
sea land air (transport, or military operations)
gap
to omit; to neglect (to do sth)
as empty as anything (idiom); completely bereft
Air China Ltd.
(math.) higher dimensional space
(of a ship, train etc) not carrying any load (i.e. no passengers or freight etc)
vacant land
filling the atmosphere
Federal Aviation Authority (FAA)
curved space
the blue sky
leaving none left
to break into a house when nobody is home
empty-handed
air rage
vanity
cloze (pedagogy)
Asiana Airlines, South Korean airline
configuration space (math.)
hackerspace
flight attendant
air transport
space walk
lit. to sing “The Empty City Stratagem” (idiom)
hollow
free
the sound of footsteps in a deserted valley (idiom)
mere verbal statement cannot be taken as proof (idiom)
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
aviation agency
cloze (pedagogy)
day that is named but not numbered (on ethnic calendar)
ground-to-air missile
high altitude
to converse with sb by shouting from some distance away
empty handed (carrying nothing)
anti-aircraft defense
air-to-surface (missile)
air-raid shelter
trapeze artist
Air India
from a distance; through the air; remotely (esp. by means of telekinesis, magic, technology etc)
outer space
Mile High Club
deserted
ambitious despite a lack of talent (idiom)
to relax completely
to embezzle by adding to the payroll employees existing in name only
to work high above the ground
fake important personage