空洞

Chinese

		emptied; leisure; air emptied; leisure; air; sky; empty; in vain	cave; hole
simp. and trad. (空洞)		空	洞

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): kōngdòng

(Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄥㄉㄨㄥˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hung¹ dung⁶
Min Nan (POJ): khong-tōng / khang-tōng

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: kōngdòng
  - Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄥㄉㄨㄥˋ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kongdonq
  - IPA ^(key): /kʰʊŋ⁵⁵ tʊŋ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: hung¹ dung⁶
  - Yale: hūng duhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hung¹ dung⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: hung¹ dung⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /hʊŋ⁵⁵ tʊŋ²²/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khong-tōng
  - Tâi-lô: khong-tōng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qongdong
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /kʰɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² tɔŋ²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰɔŋ³³ tɔŋ⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khang-tōng
  - Tâi-lô: khang-tōng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qangdong
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /kʰaŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ tɔŋ³³/

Noun

空洞

cavity; hole; void

Adjective

空洞

empty
abstract; vacuous; hollow; shallow

Japanese

Kanji in this term
空	洞
くう Grade: 1	どう Grade: S
on’yomi

Noun

空洞 (hiragana くうどう, rōmaji kūdō)

a hollow
- 1924, 小川未明, 赤い船のお客:
  笛 (ふえ)の中 (なか)は、ただ一 (いっ)本 (ぽん)の空 (くう)洞 (どう)の竹 (たけ)にしかすぎませんでした。
  Fue no naka wa, tada ippon no kūdō no take ni shika sugimasen deshita.
  The inside of the flute was nothing more than the hollow of a piece of bamboo.
cave

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