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There are 18 total results for your 空空 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

空空

see styles
kōng kōng
    kong1 kong1
k`ung k`ung
    kung kung
 kūkū
    くうくう
empty; vacuous; nothing; vacant; in vain; all for nothing; air-to-air (missile)
(noun or adjectival noun) empty; vacant; void
Unreality of unreality. When all has been regarded as illusion, or unreal, the abstract idea of unreality itself must be destroyed.

空空しい

see styles
 sorazorashii / sorazorashi
    そらぞらしい
(adjective) false; hypocritical

空空如也

see styles
kōng kōng rú yě
    kong1 kong1 ru2 ye3
k`ung k`ung ju yeh
    kung kung ju yeh
as empty as anything (idiom); completely bereft; to have nothing; vacuous; hollow; empty (argument, head etc)

空空寂寂

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kōng kōng jí jí
    kong1 kong1 ji2 ji2
k`ung k`ung chi chi
    kung kung chi chi
 kūkū jakujaku
    くうくうじゃくじゃく
(adj-no,adj-t,adv-to) (archaism) (yoji) deserted and lonesome; quiet and alone; innocent and nonattached; All is void
Void and silent, i.e. everything in the universe, with form or without form, is unreal and not to be considered as real.

空空導彈


空空导弹

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kōng kōng dǎo dàn
    kong1 kong1 dao3 dan4
k`ung k`ung tao tan
    kung kung tao tan
air-to-air missile

空空洞洞

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kōng kōng dòng dòng
    kong1 kong1 dong4 dong4
k`ung k`ung tung tung
    kung kung tung tung
empty; hollow; lacking in substance

空空漠漠

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 kuukuubakubaku / kukubakubaku
    くうくうばくばく
(adj-no,adj-t,adv-to) (archaism) (yoji) vast; boundless; empty; vague

空空盪盪


空空荡荡

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kōng kōng dàng dàng
    kong1 kong1 dang4 dang4
k`ung k`ung tang tang
    kung kung tang tang
deserted

空空蕩蕩


空空荡荡

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kōng kōng dàng dàng
    kong1 kong1 dang4 dang4
k`ung k`ung tang tang
    kung kung tang tang
absolutely empty (space); complete vacuum

兩手空空


两手空空

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liǎng shǒu kōng kōng
    liang3 shou3 kong1 kong1
liang shou k`ung k`ung
    liang shou kung kung
empty-handed (idiom); fig. not receiving anything

妙手空空

see styles
miào shǒu kōng kōng
    miao4 shou3 kong1 kong1
miao shou k`ung k`ung
    miao shou kung kung
petty thief (lit. quick fingered and vanish); empty-handed; having nothing

時空空間

see styles
 jikuukuukan / jikukukan
    じくうくうかん
{physics} spatiotemporal space

Variations:
空空
空々

see styles
 kuukuu / kuku
    くうくう
(noun or adjectival noun) empty; vacant; void

色卽是空空卽是色

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sè jí shì kōng kōng jí shì sè
    se4 ji2 shi4 kong1 kong1 ji2 shi4 se4
se chi shih k`ung k`ung chi shih se
    se chi shih kung kung chi shih se
 shiki sokuze kū kū sokuze shiki
form is exactly emptiness, emptiness is exactly form

Variations:
空空漠漠
空々漠々

see styles
 kuukuubakubaku / kukubakubaku
    くうくうばくばく
(adj-no,adj-t,adv-to) (archaism) (yoji) vast; boundless; empty; vague

Variations:
空々しい
空空しい

see styles
 sorazorashii / sorazorashi
    そらぞらしい
(adjective) false; hypocritical

Variations:
空々寂々
空空寂寂

see styles
 kuukuujakujaku / kukujakujaku
    くうくうじゃくじゃく
(adj-no,adj-t,adv-to) (archaism) (yoji) deserted and lonesome; quiet and alone; innocent and nonattached; All is void

Variations:
空々漠々
空空漠漠

see styles
 kuukuubakubaku / kukubakubaku
    くうくうばくばく
(adj-t,adv-to) (1) (yoji) vast; boundless; wide and empty; (adj-t,adv-to) (2) (yoji) vague and hazy

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 18 results for "空空" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

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