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  *空* | 空* | *空
empty / air / sky / in vain
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *空* | 空* | *空
to empty / vacant / unoccupied / space / leisure / free time
HSK 4
air / atmosphere
HSK 2
air conditioning / air conditioner (including units that have a heating mode) / CL: 臺|台
HSK 3
space; room / (fig.) scope; leeway / (astronomy) outer space / (physics, math.) space
HSK 4
air force / (slang) to fail to catch anything (on a fishing trip); to get skunked
HSK 6
air crash / aviation accident or incident
HSK 7-9
in the sky / in the air
HSK 5
empty talk / bunk / malicious gossip
vacant land / open space
HSK 7-9
daydream / fantasy / to fantasize
HSK 7-9
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
to set sth aside / to let sth lie idle / idle / unused
spare time / free time
HSK 3
empty; deserted
HSK 7-9
empty promises
airport (abbr. for 航空港)
air-to-surface (missile)
empty / vacuous / nothing / vacant / in vain / all for nothing / air-to-air (missile)
atmospheric drag
unprecedented
HSK 7-9
paratroopers
stewardess / air hostess
empty-handed / unarmed / (painting, embroidery etc) without following a model / (abbr. for 空手道) karate
deserted
absolutely empty (space) / complete vacuum
cavity / empty / vacuous
air purifier
to drop from the sky / (fig.) to appear out of nowhere / (attributive) airborne
aerodynamics
air base
air war / air warfare
gap / interval
air conditioning
fake important personage / sham
long-winded empty talk
adverse effects caused by prolonged air-conditioning exposure, including dizziness, headaches, fatigue or chest tightness
to make a journey for nothing
flight attendant / on-board service
space station
hollow / emptiness / meaningless
HSK 7-9
utopian socialism
neutral gear
alley-oop (basketball)
(formal) air conditioner
prattle / idle chit-chat
leisure; spare time / (of a person) free; unoccupied / (of equipment, rooms etc) unused; idle; vacant
air force / air defense
abbr. for 空中小姐 / stewardess / air hostess / female flight attendant
cavity wall / hollow wall
window period (time between infection and the appearance of detectable antibodies) / period during which sth is lacking (boyfriend or girlfriend, work, revenue, production of a commodity etc) / lull / hiatus
empty cave, nothing there (idiom); devoid of substance / nothing new to show
space exploration
bounced check; bad check / (idiom) empty promise
drone equipped for aerial photography
air-to-air missile
cavity
Air Force One, US presidential jet
blank space
HSK 7-9
to hijack (a plane) / aircraft hijacking / skyjacking
empty room, clean field (idiom); clean out everything to leave nothing for the enemy / scorched earth policy
vacant room
blank check
pareidolia
air pollution
air-conditioned room
vacancy / unfilled work place
see 蕹菜
air transport
phony / so-called / armchair (expert) / vain (promise) / (finance) short-seller / bear (market) / short (selling)
unprecedented and never to be duplicated / the first and the last / unmatched / unique
pretentious and vacuous person
dogfight (of planes)
shell company; shell corporation
air fryer
gunship (aircraft)
empty shell
empty and silent / desolate
air-to-surface (missile)
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)
crack / gap between two objects / gap in time between two events
HSK 7-9
Airbus (aerospace company)
blank / blank space on a form / space / (indicating missing or illegible character)
air sampler
lit. wind from an empty cave (idiom) / fig. unfounded (story) / baseless (claim)
to make empty promises
to airdrop
idle / free time / leisure
empty nest / a home where the kids have grown up and moved out
to make an air raid
air traffic controller
incomplete meal of a single dish / meat or vegetable dish without rice or wine / rice without meat or vegetables
karate
space probe
air traffic control
air-to-air missile
impractical dreamer
gap (between two objects) / interval of time (between events) / opening in one's schedule / free time / (fig.) gap (in the market etc)
flow of air / draft

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