空
空 — gong
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 빌 공
- Romanization
- gong
- English
- empty, hollow, bare, deserted
- Mandarin
- kōng
- Japanese on'yomi
- クウ, コウ, ク
- Japanese kun'yomi
- そら あ.く あ.き あ.ける から す.く す.かす むな.しい
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #304 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 穴 (116, 3 residual)
- Phonetic component
- 工
- Unicode
- U+7A7A
Parts that make up 空
How 空 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 空 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 穴, 工.
Korean example words with 空
- 공정空庭 Korean gloss: 텅 빈 뜰
- 벽공碧空 Korean gloss: 푸른 하늘
- 상공上空 Korean gloss: 높은 하늘
- 야공夜空 Korean gloss: 밤의 하늘
- 청공靑空 Korean gloss: 푸른 하늘
- 허공虛空 Korean gloss: 텅 빈 공중
- 공극空隙 Korean gloss: 비어 있는 틈
- 공병空甁 Korean gloss: 비어 있는 병
- 공두空頭 Korean gloss: 보람 없이 헛됨
- 대공大空 Korean gloss: 높고 넓은 하늘
- 창공蒼空 Korean gloss: 맑고 푸른 하늘
- 공허空虛 Korean gloss: 실속이 없이 헛됨
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 空
- 空港くうこう airport
- 航空こうくう aviation; flying
- 空から emptiness; being empty; not carrying anything
- 空気くうき air; atmosphere; mood
- 航空機こうくうき aircraft
- 空間くうかん space; room; airspace
- 空爆くうばく aerial bombing
- 空軍くうぐん air force
- 上空じょうくう sky; the skies; high-altitude sky
- 架空かくう fictitious; imaginary; fanciful
- 空中くうちゅう (in) the air; midair; sky
- 空白くうはく blank space (in a document); blank; void
Characters sharing the phonetic 工
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.
Other hanja read “공”
Other hanja with radical 穴
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences