しんくう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of しんくう – see the following entry.

【真空】

[adjective] (rare) vacant, empty

[noun] [from 1876] (physics) vacuum: a region of space that contains no matter, a void

[noun] [from 1907] (figuratively) a blank, an empty slate

[noun] [from 751] (Buddhism) sunyata: void, emptiness, non-existence; also, in the early Buddhist schools, enlightenment, nirvana

(This term, しんくう, is an alternative spelling of the above Sino-Japanese term.)