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HSK
air / atmosphere
HSK 2
erhua variant of 有空
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *空* | 空* | *空
empty / air / sky / in vain
HSK 3
sky
HSK 3
air conditioning / air conditioner (including units that have a heating mode) / CL: 臺|台
HSK 3
spare time / free time
HSK 3
aviation
HSK 4
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *空* | 空* | *空
to empty / vacant / unoccupied / space / leisure / free time
HSK 4
to fill a job vacancy / to fill in a blank (e.g. on questionnaire or exam paper)
HSK 4
space; room / (fig.) scope; leeway / (astronomy) outer space / (physics, math.) space
HSK 4
in the sky / in the air
HSK 5
outer space
HSK 5
air force / (slang) to fail to catch anything (on a fishing trip); to get skunked
HSK 6
the skies above a certain place; (aviation) airspace / (Tw) topless
HSK 7-9
blank space
HSK 7-9
time and place / world of a particular locale and era / (physics) space-time
HSK 7-9
vacant land / open space
HSK 7-9
(physics, fig.) vacuum / (slang) to not wear underwear
HSK 7-9
crack / gap between two objects / gap in time between two events
HSK 7-9
hollow / emptiness / meaningless
HSK 7-9
high altitude
HSK 7-9
unprecedented
HSK 7-9
daydream / fantasy / to fantasize
HSK 7-9
a common occurrence (idiom)
HSK 7-9
air crash / aviation accident or incident
HSK 7-9
empty; deserted
HSK 7-9
to take advantage of a loophole; to exploit an advantage; to seize the opportunity (esp. to do sth bad)
HSK 7-9
vacuum pump
blank / blank space on a form / space / (indicating missing or illegible character)
to clear / to empty
baseless (lie) / without foundation
to sell short (finance)
Airbus (abbr. for 空中客車|空中客车)
starry sky; the star-studded heavens
hollow / empty interior
air transport
leisure; spare time / (of a person) free; unoccupied / (of equipment, rooms etc) unoccupied; unused; idle; vacant; spare
openwork / fretwork
an empty stomach
Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers from the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记
to omit; to neglect (to do sth) / to miss a chance; to let an opportunity slip by
to fail to achieve something; to be fruitless
to fail; to fall through; to come to nothing
empty-handed (idiom); fig. not receiving anything
low altitude
air-to-surface (missile)
electron hole (physics)
to hang in the air / suspended in midair / (fig.) uncertain
to build (a hut etc) on stilts / to install (power lines etc) overhead / (fig.) unfounded; impractical / (fig.) to make sb a mere figurehead
to drop from the sky / (fig.) to appear out of nowhere / (attributive) airborne
empty talk / bunk / malicious gossip
Chinese yo-yo
to set sth aside / to let sth lie idle / idle / unused
(literary) the vast sky / (finance) eventual downturn / poor prospects in the long term
empty place / room (for sb)
air war / air warfare
hollow / (of vegetables) to become hollow or spongy inside / (of a basketball) to swish through (not touching the hoop)
on an empty stomach
like a heavenly steed, soaring across the skies (idiom) / (of writing, calligraphy etc) bold and imaginative / unconstrained in style
to drain out; to empty / to discharge (waste gas) into the air / to soar up into the sky
to make an air raid
free / vacant / unoccupied
void / hollow / empty
cavity / empty / vacuous
empty nest / a home where the kids have grown up and moved out
to rise to the sky / to lift off / to levitate / liftoff
abbr. for 空中小姐 / stewardess / air hostess / female flight attendant
wide sea and sky (idiom); boundless open vistas / the whole wide world / chatting about everything under the sun
to excavate / to hollow
to airdrop
flip / somersault
two-character surname Sikong
gap (between two objects) / interval of time (between events) / opening in one's schedule / free time / (fig.) gap (in the market etc)
territorial air space
gap / unoccupied space or time / fig. gap / loophole
karate
anti-aircraft defense
be high up in the sky
cavity
to find the time to do sth
spacious and empty / void
phony / so-called / armchair (expert) / vain (promise) / (finance) short-seller / bear (market) / short (selling)
night sky
a clear and boundless sky
to sell short (finance)
empty set (set theory)
all in vain; futile
incomplete meal of a single dish / meat or vegetable dish without rice or wine / rice without meat or vegetables
the eagle soars in the sky (citation from Mao Zedong)
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
midair
vacancy
jejunum (empty gut, middle segment of small intestine between duodenum 十二指腸|十二指肠 and ileum 回腸|回肠)
the blue sky
pavilion in the air (idiom); unrealistic Utopian construction / castles in Spain / imaginary future plans
(idiom) to make a clean sweep of; to clean out
(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)
overhead / up in the sky
using a wicker basket to draw water (idiom); wasted effort
lit. the occupants have gone and the place is now empty (idiom) / fig. (of a dwelling) empty; deserted

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