一場空
yī​cháng​kōng

all in vain

  • created sense approved 一场空/一場空 · yī​cháng​kōng · all in vain — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    一场空 / 一場空

    yī​cháng​kōng

    all in vain

    everything having come to nothing; all efforts and hopes failing completely

    yī​chǎng​kōng, yì​chǎng​kōng

    一, 场, 空

    一 (literal) → 一 · yī · whole 场 (literal) → 场/場 · cháng · [episodes/bouts] 空 (literal) → 空 · kōng · in vain

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense