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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
space; room / (fig.) scope; leeway / (astronomy) outer space / (physics, math.) space
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *空* | 空* | *空
to empty / vacant / unoccupied / space / leisure / free time
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
vacant land / open space
HSK 7-9
blank space
HSK 7-9
hollow / emptiness / meaningless
HSK 7-9
crack / gap between two objects / gap in time between two events
HSK 7-9
empty; deserted
HSK 7-9
unprecedented
HSK 7-9
daydream / fantasy / to fantasize
HSK 7-9
air crash / aviation accident or incident
HSK 7-9
prattle / idle chit-chat
gap / empty space
flight attendant / on-board service
hanging gardens (Babylon etc) / rooftop garden
empty-handed / unarmed / (painting, embroidery etc) without following a model / (abbr. for 空手道) karate
idle / free time / leisure
married stewardess of mature age
flight attendant / cabin crew
bear market
to make an air raid
air conditioning
mere verbal statement cannot be taken as proof (idiom)
air war / air warfare
gap / unoccupied space or time / fig. gap / loophole
vacancy
an empty stomach
vacant room
air base
air-to-surface (missile)
empty / desolate
shallow / empty
abbr. for 空中小姐 / stewardess / air hostess / female flight attendant
electron hole (physics)
gap (between two objects) / interval of time (between events) / opening in one's schedule / free time / (fig.) gap (in the market etc)
hollow ball / (basketball) swish shot
empty / vacuous / nothing / vacant / in vain / all for nothing / air-to-air (missile)
air traffic control
to airdrop
empty shell
spacious and empty / void
empty place / room (for sb)
to drop from the sky / (fig.) to appear out of nowhere / (attributive) airborne
see 蕹菜
air pollution
gap / interval
blank / blank space on a form / space / (indicating missing or illegible character)
phony / so-called / armchair (expert) / vain (promise) / (finance) short-seller / bear (market) / short (selling)
empty talk / bunk / malicious gossip
bounced check; bad check / (idiom) empty promise
to make a journey for nothing
pavilion in the air (idiom); unrealistic Utopian construction / castles in Spain / imaginary future plans
unprecedented and never to be duplicated / the first and the last / unmatched / unique
aerodynamics
air commodore / top commander of air force
paratroopers
stewardess / air hostess
atmospheric drag
air-to-surface (missile)
having nothing (idiom); utterly destitute / without two sticks to rub together
Airbus (aerospace company)
air-to-air missile
absolutely empty (space) / complete vacuum
lit. wind from an empty cave (idiom) / fig. unfounded (story) / baseless (claim)
space bar (keyboard)
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
neutral gear
to set sth aside / to let sth lie idle / idle / unused
to make empty promises
vacuous reputation / name without substance / in name only / so-called
empty cave, nothing there (idiom); devoid of substance / nothing new to show
impractical dreamer
as empty as anything (idiom); completely bereft / to have nothing / vacuous / hollow / empty (argument, head etc)
disconnected phone number / unassigned phone number
flip / somersault
karate
vague and general / not specific / shallow / empty
ambitious despite a lack of talent (idiom)
empty handed (carrying nothing) / alone
long-winded empty talk
hollow / (of vegetables) to become hollow or spongy inside / (of a basketball) to swish through (not touching the hoop)
on an empty stomach
scarce / poor
airline steward
idle clamor / to prattle
Chinese yo-yo
vanity / empty fantasy / illusion
air conditioned vehicle
lit. the sound of footsteps in a deserted valley (idiom) / fig. sth hard to come by; sth wonderful and rare
vacancy / unfilled work place
useless person
airport (abbr. for 航空港)
aerial photography (video or still) (Tw)
fake important personage / sham
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")

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