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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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  *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
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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
to pour into / to empty into
HSK 7-9
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  *虛* | 虛* | *虛
emptiness / void / abstract theory or guiding principles / empty or unoccupied / diffident or timid / false / humble or modest / (of health) weak / virtual / in vain
HSK 7-9
empty; deserted
HSK 7-9
hollow / emptiness / meaningless
HSK 7-9
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  *咕* | 咕* | *咕
(onom.) for the sound of a bird, an empty stomach etc
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  *徒* | 徒* | *徒
disciple; apprentice; believer / on foot / bare; empty / to no avail / only / prison sentence
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  *唐* | 唐* | *唐
to exaggerate / empty / in vain / old variant of
empty-handed / unarmed / (painting, embroidery etc) without following a model / (abbr. for 空手道) karate
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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
empty-handed (idiom); fig. not receiving anything
lit. the cicada sheds its carapace (idiom); fig. to vanish leaving an empty shell / a crafty escape plan
vast and empty
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  *嵺* | 嵺* | *嵺
(literary) vast and empty
cavity / empty / vacuous
desolate / empty
void / hollow / empty
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  *枵* | 枵* | *枵
(archaic) hollow of a tree / (literary) empty; hollow
the multitudes come out from everywhere, emptying every alleyway (to celebrate) / the whole town turns out
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  *槺* | 槺* | *槺
empty space inside a building
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)
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *癟* | 癟* | *癟
deflated / shriveled / sunken / empty
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  *罄* | 罄* | *罄
to use up / to exhaust / empty
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
to dump / to pour / to empty out
an empty stomach
empty place / room (for sb)
gap / empty space
empty / vacuous / nothing / vacant / in vain / all for nothing / air-to-air (missile)
spacious and empty / void
great emptiness / the void / heaven / the skies / universe / cosmos / original essence of the cosmos
on an empty stomach
empty / hollow / lacking in substance
jejunum (empty gut, middle segment of small intestine between duodenum 十二指腸|十二指肠 and ileum 回腸|回肠)
hollow / empty interior
lit. wind from an empty cave (idiom) / fig. unfounded (story) / baseless (claim)
absolutely empty (space) / complete vacuum
bounced check; bad check / (fig.) empty promise
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
lit. the occupants have gone and the place is now empty (idiom) / fig. (of a dwelling) empty; deserted
empty cave, nothing there (idiom); devoid of substance / nothing new to show
to make empty promises
to defecate / to empty one's bowels
empty words / bogus speech
to empty out one's pocket / (fig.) to give everything one has (to help)
to move swiftly / to speed / to run after (empty fame, power, money etc)
dead letter / rule no longer in force / empty formality
to gain nothing / to end up empty-handed
empty talk / bunk / malicious gossip
(of a theater) to empty / (of a show) to end
lit. a banquet with no empty seats / full house / capacity crowd / standing room only
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  *匱* | 匱* | *匱
to lack / lacking / empty / exhausted
as empty as anything (idiom); completely bereft / to have nothing / vacuous / hollow / empty (argument, head etc)
empty words / false words
forgetful / empty-headed
(literary) quiet and desolate / lonely / vast and empty
empty hand, empty fist (idiom); having nothing to rely on / unarmed and defenseless
vague and general / not specific / shallow / empty
white hand / empty-handed
to sing the high part / to speak fine sounding but empty words (idiom)
imaginary reputation / empty fame
long-winded empty talk
empty / desolate
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  *寥* | 寥* | *寥
empty / lonesome / very few
vanity / empty fantasy / illusion
empty handed (carrying nothing) / alone
trite / clichéd / empty and trite / banality / platitude
petty thief (lit. quick fingered and vanish) / empty-handed / having nothing
(lit.) to fire blank shots / (fig.) to be all talk and no action / to shoot one's mouth off / to make empty promises
to urinate / to empty one's bladder
to hollow out / to empty out / to use up / (finance) tunneling
as if one had lost something (idiom) / to look or feel unsettled or distracted / to feel empty
shallow / empty
to talk without any intention of acting on it / empty prattle
emptiness
empty formality
empty / deserted
empty and silent / desolate
empty set (set theory)
empty nest / a home where the kids have grown up and moved out
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)
to drain out; to empty / to discharge (waste gas) into the air / to soar up into the sky
empty wrist (method of painting)
to return empty (i.e. to drive back with no passengers or freight)
empty shell
lit. a full bottle makes no sound; a half-filled bottle sloshes (idiom) / fig. empty vessels make the most noise
one can't function properly on an empty stomach (idiom) / an empty sack cannot stand upright
to empty (a bag) / to turn inside out / to turn out
empty talk / mere rhetoric / palaver
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
sound made by an empty stomach
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
the sky hangs low over the Yangtze, empty as far as the eye can see (idiom); nothing to see to the broad horizon
to exist in name only / empty shell / useless (idiom)
to clear / to empty
nothing / empty

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