空
kōngkòng HSK2

empty

空 kōng frequency
sky noun
(bound form) the sky; outer space; the air
empty adjective
empty; hollow; void of content; containing nothing

我不会空着手回家。

wǒ bù​huì kōng zhe shǒu huí jiā.

I'm not going home empty-handed.

半满还是半空？

bàn mǎn hái​shi bàn kōng?

Half full or half empty?

impractical adjective
impractical; theoretical; unreal; fictitious
emptiness adjective
(Buddhist term) the concept of sunyata or emptiness, meaning things have no permanent self-nature
in vain
to no avail; for nothing; uselessly; fruitlessly
surname
a Chinese surname
only
(literary) only; just; merely
空 kòng
free time noun
leisure; free time; a gap in time
vacant adjective
unoccupied; blank; unused space; a gap or opening

房间终于空了。

fáng​jiān zhōng​yú kòng le.

The room was finally empty.

to leave empty verb
to leave a space blank; to vacate; to make room by leaving something empty

把下周日空出来。

bǎ xià zhōu​rì kòng chū​lai.

Keep next Sunday free.

deficit
a shortage of funds; a deficit; a debt

Cross-References

Has erhua variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
272nd most common 819.3 per million
Movie subtitles
444th most common 331.3 per million appears in 74% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
66.8 per million appears in 23% of films
Written text
93.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+7A7A

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)