空 kōng empty

Example sentences

这个瓶子是空的。Zhège píngzi shì kōng de.This bottle is empty.
他走进来的时候，房间里空无一人。Tā zǒu jìnlái de shíhou, fángjiān lǐ kōng wú yī rén.When he walked in, the room was completely empty.

HSK 4 — upper-intermediate proficiency: 600 new words, 1,200 in all. You can converse fluently on a wide range of topics with native speakers. In HSK 3.0, 空 is in band 3. HSK 4 explained

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Empty is中空。

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中这个瓶子是空的。

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Stroke order

空 is written in 8 strokes.

空 — the Chinese character for empty (kōng), stroke diagram — Stroke diagram for 空 — empty

Senses

empty
air
sky
in vain

Related words

Where 空 lives

HSK 4 list Practise HSK 3.0 · band 3 Practise Topic: Describing things Practise

空 is pronounced kōng and means “empty”.