空穴

空穴

Chinese

		emptied; leisure; air emptied; leisure; air; sky; empty; in vain	hole; cave
simp. and trad. (空穴)		空	穴

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kǒngxué, kǒngxuè

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄥˇ ㄒㄩㄝˊ, ㄎㄨㄥˇ ㄒㄩㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hung¹ jyut⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland)⁺
    • Pinyin: kǒngxué
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄥˇ ㄒㄩㄝˊ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: koongshyue
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰʊŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ ɕɥ̯œ³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan; variant in Mainland)⁺
    • Pinyin: kǒngxuè
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄥˇ ㄒㄩㄝˋ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: koongshiueh
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰʊŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ ɕɥ̯œ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hung¹ jyut⁶
    • Yale: hūng yuht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hung¹ jyt⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hung¹ yud⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /hʊŋ⁵⁵ jyːt̚²/

Noun

空穴

1. cavity; hole
2. empty house
3. (electronics) (positive) hole; cavity

Synonyms

• (cavity):

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