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Trad. 鑿空
- to open an aperture
- (extended meaning) to cut a way through
- to open up a road
- to build (a hut etc) on stilts
- to install (power lines etc) overhead
- (fig.) unfounded; impractical
- (fig.) to make sb a mere figurehead
Trad. 撲空
- lit. to rush at thin air
- fig. to miss one's aim
- to have nothing to show for one's troubles
- to relax completely
- to empty one's mind
- (finance) to sell short
- (of a commercial vehicle) to travel empty (no cargo or passengers)
- to deadhead
- (math.) (of a set) non-empty; (computing) (of a data structure) non-empty
- to miss one's step
- (of an investor) to fail to invest before the price rises
Trad. 輪空
- (sports) bye; to get a bye
- (of an employee) to be not scheduled at work for a period of time (when working shifts)
- to drain out; to empty
- to discharge (waste gas) into the air
- to soar up into the sky
- incomplete meal of a single dish
- meat or vegetable dish without rice or wine
- rice without meat or vegetables
- to fill a job vacancy
- to fill in a blank (e.g. on a form, questionnaire or exam paper)
- to omit; to neglect (to do sth)
- to miss a chance; to let an opportunity slip by
- hollow
- (of vegetables) to become hollow or spongy inside
- (of a basketball) to swish through (not touching the hoop)
- empty-handed
- unarmed
- (painting, embroidery etc) without following a model
- (abbr. for 空手道[kong1 shou3 dao4]) karate
- (finance) sth that engenders bearish sentiment; unfavorable news
- (finance) (of news, data etc) unfavorable; negative
- blank
- blank space on a form
- space
- 囗 (indicating missing or illegible character)
Trad. 空檔
- gap (between two objects)
- interval of time (between events)
- opening in one's schedule
- free time
- (fig.) gap (in the market etc)
- from a distance; through the air; remotely (esp. by means of telekinesis, magic, technology etc)
- to intentionally reinterpret a spoken expression as if one had misheard it, for the sake of humor (often, it is a phrase in a foreign language twisted into a similar-sounding phrase in one's native language with a completely different meaning) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 空耳 "soramimi")
Trad. 空腸
- jejunum (empty gut, middle segment of small intestine between duodenum 十二指腸|十二指肠[shi2 er4 zhi3 chang2] and ileum 回腸|回肠[hui2 chang2])
Trad. 長空
- (literary) the vast sky
- (finance) eventual downturn
- poor prospects in the long term
Trad. 空調
- air conditioning
- air conditioner (including units that have a heating mode)
- CL:臺|台[tai2]
Trad. 脫空
- to fail
- to come to nothing
- to fall through (of plans, hopes)
- to lie
Trad. 空軍
- air force
- (slang) to fail to catch anything (on a fishing trip); to get skunked
- Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers from the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记[Xi1 You2 Ji4]
Trad. 空載
- (of a ship, train etc) not carrying any load (i.e. no passengers or freight etc)
- (electricity) no-load (used to describe the condition of a transformer when there is no load connected to its secondary coil)
Trad. 空閒
- leisure; spare time
- (of a person) free; unoccupied
- (of equipment, rooms etc) unused; idle; vacant
Trad. 空間
- space; room
- (fig.) scope; leeway
- (astronomy) outer space
- (physics, math.) space
- to drop from the sky
- (fig.) to appear out of nowhere
- (attributive) airborne
Trad. 空頭
- phony
- so-called
- armchair (expert)
- vain (promise)
- (finance) short-seller
- bear (market)
- short (selling)
Trad. 時空
- time and place
- world of a particular locale and era
- (physics) space-time
Trad. 放空擋
- to coast along in neutral gear (in a car)
- (coll.) to go commando
- (lit.) to fire blank shots
- (fig.) to be all talk and no action
- to shoot one's mouth off
- to make empty promises
- air raid shelter; bomb shelter
- (fig.) place that protects bad people; hideout
Trad. 闖空門
- to break into a home when no one is there (to steal)
Trad. 空城計
- 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); double bluff
Trad. 孫悟空
- Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记[Xi1 you2 Ji4]
- Son Goku, the main character in Dragon Ball 七龍珠|七龙珠[Qi1 long2 zhu1]
Trad. 海陸空
- sea land air (transport, or military operations)
- window period (time between infection and the appearance of detectable antibodies)
- period during which sth is lacking (boyfriend or girlfriend, work, revenue, production of a commodity etc)
- lull
- hiatus
Trad. 懸空寺
- Xuankong Temple or Suspended Temple near Yanyuan in Shanxi