空洞

空洞

Chinese

		emptied; leisure; air emptied; leisure; air; sky; empty; in vain	cave; hole
simp. and trad. (空洞)		空	洞
anagram		洞空

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kōngdòng

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄥ ㄉㄨㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hung¹ dung⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): khong-tōng / khang-tōng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: kōngdòng
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄥ ㄉㄨㄥˋ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kongdonq
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰʊŋ⁵⁵ tʊŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hung¹ dung⁶
    • Yale: hūng duhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hung¹ dung⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: hung¹ dung⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /hʊŋ⁵⁵ tʊŋ²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khong-tōng
    • Tâi-lô: khong-tōng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qongdong
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /kʰɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² tɔŋ²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰɔŋ³³ tɔŋ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khang-tōng
    • Tâi-lô: khang-tōng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qangdong
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /kʰaŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ tɔŋ³³/

Noun

空洞

1. cavity; hole; void

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 孔 (“hole”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
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

• (abstract): 具體／具体 (jùtǐ)

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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