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air / atmosphere
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *空* | 空* | *空
empty / air / sky / in vain
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
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
vacant land / open space
HSK 7-9
hollow / emptiness / meaningless
HSK 7-9
unprecedented
HSK 7-9
daydream / fantasy / to fantasize
HSK 7-9
air crash / aviation accident or incident
HSK 7-9
empty; deserted
HSK 7-9
crack / gap between two objects / gap in time between two events
HSK 7-9
pavilion in the air (idiom); unrealistic Utopian construction / castles in Spain / imaginary future plans
aerial photography (video or still) (Tw)
blank / blank space on a form / space / (indicating missing or illegible character)
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)
Airbus (abbr. for 空中客車|空中客车)
air transport
air-to-surface (missile)
to drop from the sky / (fig.) to appear out of nowhere / (attributive) airborne
empty talk / bunk / malicious gossip
hollow / (of vegetables) to become hollow or spongy inside / (of a basketball) to swish through (not touching the hoop)
on an empty stomach
cavity / empty / vacuous
empty nest / a home where the kids have grown up and moved out
abbr. for 空中小姐 / stewardess / air hostess / female flight attendant
to airdrop
flip / somersault
gap (between two objects) / interval of time (between events) / opening in one's schedule / free time / (fig.) gap (in the market etc)
karate
an empty stomach
cavity
spacious and empty / void
phony / so-called / armchair (expert) / vain (promise) / (finance) short-seller / bear (market) / short (selling)
empty set (set theory)
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)
incomplete meal of a single dish / meat or vegetable dish without rice or wine / rice without meat or vegetables
see 蕹菜
prattle / idle chit-chat
lit. wind from an empty cave (idiom) / fig. unfounded (story) / baseless (claim)
air-to-surface (missile)
empty and silent / desolate
as empty as anything (idiom); completely bereft / to have nothing / vacuous / hollow / empty (argument, head etc)
empty / vacuous / nothing / vacant / in vain / all for nothing / air-to-air (missile)
vacancy / unfilled work place
empty / desolate
unprecedented and never to be duplicated / the first and the last / unmatched / unique
air force / air defense
airport (abbr. for 航空港)
empty cave, nothing there (idiom); devoid of substance / nothing new to show
mere verbal statement cannot be taken as proof (idiom)
idle / free time / leisure
having nothing (idiom); utterly destitute / without two sticks to rub together
vanity / empty fantasy / illusion
lit. the sound of footsteps in a deserted valley (idiom) / fig. sth hard to come by; sth wonderful and rare
shallow / empty
vague and general / not specific / shallow / empty
idle clamor / to prattle
leisure; spare time / (of a person) free; unoccupied / (of equipment, rooms etc) unused; idle; vacant
to make an air raid
empty-handed / unarmed / (painting, embroidery etc) without following a model / (abbr. for 空手道) karate
air pollution
flight attendant / on-board service
vacuous reputation / name without substance / in name only / so-called
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
day that is named but not numbered (on ethnic calendar)
emptiness
empty room, clean field (idiom); clean out everything to leave nothing for the enemy / scorched earth policy
stewardess / air hostess
not a soul in sight (idiom)
to float in the air
air fryer
aerodynamics
hanging gardens (Babylon etc) / rooftop garden
to intentionally reinterpret a spoken expression as if one had misheard it, for the sake of humor (often, it is a phrase in a foreign language twisted into a similar-sounding phrase in one's native language with a completely different meaning) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 空耳 "soramimi")
empty handed (carrying nothing) / alone
gap / interval
air traffic controller
Air Force One, US presidential jet
(coll.) to make big gains without putting in effort or resources
trapeze artist / frequent flyer
hollow ball / (basketball) swish shot
null value (in a relational database)
vacant room
space bar (keyboard)
atmospheric drag
airline steward (abbr. for 空中少爺|空中少爷)
fake important personage / sham
deserted
absolutely empty (space) / complete vacuum
macaroni
aerodynamic force
disconnected phone number / unassigned phone number
gap / empty space

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