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  *乾* | 乾* | *乾
dry / dried food / empty; hollow / taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster / futile; in vain / (dialect) rude; blunt / (dialect) to cold-shoulder
HSK 1
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  *拉* | 拉* | *拉
to pull / to play (a bowed instrument) / to drag / to draw / to chat / (coll.) to empty one's bowels
HSK 2
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  *空* | 空* | *空
empty / air / sky / in vain
HSK 3
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  *空* | 空* | *空
to empty / vacant / unoccupied / space / leisure / free time
HSK 4
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  *白* | 白* | *白
white / snowy / pure / bright / empty / blank / plain / clear / to make clear / in vain / gratuitous / free of charge / reactionary / anti-communist / funeral / to stare coldly / to write wrong character / to state / to explain / vernacular / spoken lines in opera
HSK 1
to pour into / to empty into
HSK 7-9
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  *徒* | 徒* | *徒
(bound form) disciple; apprentice; believer; (derog.) wrongdoer (as in 騙徒|骗徒 "swindler" or 叛徒 "traitor" etc) / (bound form) on foot / (bound form) bare; empty / (bound form) to no avail; in vain / (bound form) merely; just; only / (bound form) prison sentence
to clear / to empty
the multitudes come out from everywhere, emptying every alleyway (to celebrate) / the whole town turns out
to gain nothing / to end up empty-handed
empty / vacuous / nothing / vacant / in vain / all for nothing / air-to-air (missile)
lit. the occupants have gone and the place is now empty (idiom) / fig. (of a dwelling) empty; deserted
lit. wind from an empty cave (idiom) / fig. unfounded (story) / baseless (claim)
empty-handed / unarmed / (painting, embroidery etc) without following a model / (abbr. for 空手道) karate
to dump; to pour out; to empty out
(of a theater) to empty / (of a show) to end
to talk without any intention of acting on it / empty prattle
cavity / empty / vacuous
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  *控* | 控* | *控
to control / to accuse / to charge / to sue / to invert a container to empty it / (suffix) (slang) buff / enthusiast / devotee / -phile or -philia
bounced check; bad check / (idiom) empty promise
empty formality
to restore sth to its initial state / to reset (an odometer etc) / to empty (a bank account) / to eradicate (a disease) / (computing) to clear (memory) / to zero (a hard drive)
empty-handed (idiom); fig. not receiving anything
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
absolutely empty (space) / complete vacuum
empty talk / bunk / malicious gossip
empty words / bogus speech
(idiom) to bluff; to bluster; to make an empty show of strength
to exist in name only / empty shell / useless (idiom)
forgetful / empty-headed
hollow / empty interior
lit. a banquet with no empty seats / full house / capacity crowd / standing room only
lit. the cicada sheds its carapace (idiom); fig. to vanish leaving an empty shell / a crafty escape plan
gap / empty space
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  *匱* | 匱* | *匱
to lack / lacking / empty / exhausted
empty; deserted
HSK 7-9
hollow / emptiness / meaningless
HSK 7-9
dead letter / rule no longer in force / empty formality
to return empty (i.e. to drive back with no passengers or freight)
vast and empty
empty room, clean field (idiom); clean out everything to leave nothing for the enemy / scorched earth policy
to drain out; to empty / to discharge (waste gas) into the air / to soar up into the sky
to empty out one's pocket / (fig.) to give everything one has (to help)
empty and silent / desolate
desolate / empty
(literary) quiet and desolate / lonely / vast and empty
empty-handed
to overturn empty convention, and display originality (idiom); new and different ideas
empty cave, nothing there (idiom); devoid of substance / nothing new to show
sound made by an empty stomach
the sky hangs low over the Yangtze, empty as far as the eye can see (idiom); nothing to see to the broad horizon
to hollow out / to empty out / to use up / (finance) tunneling
(lit.) to fire blank shots / (fig.) to be all talk and no action / to shoot one's mouth off / to make empty promises
imaginary reputation / empty fame
to sing the high part / to speak fine sounding but empty words (idiom)
empty nest / a home where the kids have grown up and moved out
nothing / empty
to leave a message / to leave some empty space in a work of art / to leave idle moments (in one's life, a theater play etc)
trite / clichéd / empty and trite / banality / platitude
to return empty-handed / to fail to win anything
void / hollow / empty
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  *癟* | 癟* | *癟
deflated / shriveled / sunken / empty
empty place / room (for sb)
as empty as anything (idiom); completely bereft / to have nothing / vacuous / hollow / empty (argument, head etc)
empty / hollow / lacking in substance
empty and quiet
lit. to sing "The Empty City Stratagem" (idiom) / fig. to put up a bluff to conceal one's weakness / (jocular) (of a place etc) to be empty; (of one's stomach) to be rumbling
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  *枵* | 枵* | *枵
(archaic) hollow of a tree / (literary) empty; hollow
as if one had lost something (idiom) / to look or feel unsettled or distracted / to feel empty
jejunum (empty gut, middle segment of small intestine between duodenum 十二指腸|十二指肠 and ileum 回腸|回肠)
long-winded empty talk
(math.) (of a set) non-empty; (computing) (of a data structure) non-empty
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  *唐* | 唐* | *唐
to exaggerate / empty / in vain / old variant of
empty set (set theory)
lit. a full bottle makes no sound; a half-filled bottle sloshes (idiom) / fig. empty vessels make the most noise
to empty (a bag) / to turn inside out / to turn out
petty thief (lit. quick fingered and vanish) / empty-handed / having nothing
empty promises
wind does not come from an empty cave without reason / there's no smoke without fire (idiom)
empty words / false words
spacious and empty / void
to move swiftly / to speed / to run after (empty fame, power, money etc)
great emptiness / the void / heaven / the skies / universe / cosmos / original essence of the cosmos
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
used up / exhausted / emptied
empty shell
vague and general / not specific / shallow / empty
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  *肙* | 肙* | *肙
a small worm / to twist / to surround / empty
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  *咕* | 咕* | *咕
(onom.) for the sound of a bird, an empty stomach etc
white hand / empty-handed
lit. if you tap a half-empty bottle it makes a sound (idiom) / fig. empty vessels make the most noise / one who has a little knowledge likes to show off, but one who is truly knowledgeable is modest
to defecate / to empty one's bowels
to urinate / to empty one's bladder
empty / deserted
an empty stomach
empty handed (carrying nothing) / alone
to make empty promises
one can't function properly on an empty stomach (idiom) / an empty sack cannot stand upright
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  *嵺* | 嵺* | *嵺
(literary) vast and empty
empty / desolate

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