空 — Chinese character
空
kōng
hollow, empty, deserted, bare
- Pinyin
- kōng
- Radical
- 116 ⽳ (Cave)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 穴 工
- Formation
- pictophonetic — cave; meaning component 穴; sound component 工
- Japanese
- 空 as a kanji
Common words with 空
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 空间 (空間) | kōng jiān | space; room; (fig.) scope; leeway |
| 航空 | háng kōng | aviation |
| 空气 (空氣) | kōng qì | air; atmosphere |
| 天空 | tiān kōng | sky |
| 空中 | kōng zhōng | in the sky; in the air |
| 太空 | tài kōng | outer space |
| 空军 (空軍) | kōng jūn | air force; (slang) to fail to catch anything (on a fishing trip); to get skunked |
| 空调 (空調) | kōng tiáo | air conditioning; air conditioner (including units that have a heating mode) |
| 时空 (時空) | shí kōng | time and place; world of a particular locale and era |
| 空袭 (空襲) | kōng xí | to make an air raid |
| 航空公司 | háng kōng gōng sī | airline; measure word: 家 (jiā) |
| 空白 | kòng bái | blank space |
English words written with 空
空 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 3 · Mencius 2 · Zhuangzi 9
- Analects 9.7
- Analects 11.18
- Mencius 6B.15
- Mencius 7B.12
- Zhuangzi On Letting Alone
- Zhuangzi The Circling Sky
- Zhuangzi Autumn Floods
- Zhuangzi Perfect Happiness
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.