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HSK
air / atmosphere
HSK 2
erhua variant of 有空
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *空* | 空* | *空
to empty / vacant / unoccupied / space / leisure / free time
HSK 4
space; room / (fig.) scope; leeway / (astronomy) outer space / (physics, math.) space
HSK 4
to fill a job vacancy / to fill in a blank (e.g. on a form, questionnaire or exam paper)
HSK 4
aviation
HSK 4
outer space
HSK 5
in the sky / in the air
HSK 5
air force / (slang) to fail to catch anything (on a fishing trip); to get skunked
HSK 6
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
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
the skies above a certain place; (aviation) airspace / (Tw) topless
HSK 7-9
crack / gap between two objects / gap in time between two events
HSK 7-9
outer space
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
airport (abbr. for 航空港)
empty / vacuous / nothing / vacant / in vain / all for nothing / air-to-air (missile)
empty and quiet
phase space (math., ordinary differential equations)
Airbus (aerospace company)
vacuum pump
aviation science
pavilion in the air (idiom); unrealistic Utopian construction / castles in Spain / imaginary future plans
aerial photography (video or still) (Tw)
openwork / fretwork
blank / blank space on a form / space / (indicating missing or illegible character)
(acrobatics) front flip
baseless (lie) / without foundation
flip / somersault
long-winded empty talk
bounced check; bad check / (idiom) empty promise
(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)
idle / free time / leisure
Airbus (abbr. for 空中客車|空中客车)
empty cave, nothing there (idiom); devoid of substance / nothing new to show
like a heavenly steed, soaring across the skies (idiom) / (of writing, calligraphy etc) bold and imaginative / unconstrained in style
starry sky; the star-studded heavens
to fail / to come to nothing / to fall through (of plans, hopes) / to lie
air transport
Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers from the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记
evaporative air conditioner / evaporative cooler
International Space Station
low altitude
air-to-surface (missile)
hackerspace; hacklab; makerspace
to build (a hut etc) on stilts / to install (power lines etc) overhead / (fig.) unfounded; impractical / (fig.) to make sb a mere figurehead
vacancy / unfilled work place
to drop from the sky / (fig.) to appear out of nowhere / (attributive) airborne
empty talk / bunk / malicious gossip
space probe
(literary) the vast sky / (finance) eventual downturn / poor prospects in the long term
hollow / (of vegetables) to become hollow or spongy inside / (of a basketball) to swish through (not touching the hoop)
on an empty stomach
utopian socialism
to drain out; to empty / to discharge (waste gas) into the air / to soar up into the sky
aerial ropeway / cable car
cloze (pedagogy)
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
to clear / to empty
abbr. for 空中小姐 / stewardess / air hostess / female flight attendant
to airdrop
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)
(math.) affine subspace
karate
anti-aircraft defense
wide sea and sky (idiom); boundless open vistas / the whole wide world / chatting about everything under the sun
an empty stomach
to find the time to do sth
spacious and empty / void
curved space
coordinate space
to break into a home when no one is there (to steal)
phony / so-called / armchair (expert) / vain (promise) / (finance) short-seller / bear (market) / short (selling)
navy and air force
night sky
a clear and boundless sky
to sell short (finance)
all in vain; futile
gunship (aircraft)
the eagle soars in the sky (citation from Mao Zedong)

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