Chinese symbol for “vacuous”
空洞
kōng dòng
cavity; empty; vacuous
The closest CC-CEDICT match for vacuous is 空洞 (kōng dòng), defined as: cavity; empty; vacuous.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “vacuous”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 空空 | kōng kōng | empty; vacuous |
| 空空如也 | kōng kōng rú yě | as empty as anything (idiom); completely bereft; to have nothing |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 空洞.
| 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 |
| 漏洞 | lòu dòng | leak; hole |
| 洞穴 | dòng xué | cave; cavern |
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.