Word details
空
Meanings, readings, and example sentences for the Japanese word 空.
Dictionary
Entry
1
Common noun
empty air; sky
Examples
警棒で空をなぐりつけ、よろめいて体勢をたてなおしたガードマンは、自分に向かって突進してくる金網づくりのクズカゴを見た。
The guard's truncheon hit air. Off balance, he regained his posture to see a metal-mesh rubbish bin flying towards him.
2
Common noun; Buddhism
shunyata (the lack of an immutable intrinsic nature within any phenomenon); emptiness
3
Abbreviation; Common noun
air force
4
Common noun; Adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
fruitlessness; meaninglessness
5
Common noun; Adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
void (one of the five elements)
6
Nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'; Mathematics
empty (e.g. set)
Character notes
Kanji in this Word
空
empty, sky, void, vacant, vacuum
8 strokesFrequency 304JLPT N4Grade 1
On
クウ
Kun
そらあ.くあ.きあ.けるからす.くす.かすむな.しい
Nanori
うつきく
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