Kanji1 / 8
空 kanji
empty, sky, void, vacant, vacuum
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
クウ
Kun readings
そらあくあきあけるからすくすかすむなしい
Words with 空
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —空empty air; sky; shunyata (the lack of an immutable intrinsic nature within any phenomenon); emptiness; air force; fruitlessness; meaninglessness; void (one of the five elements); empty (e.g. set)
- —滑空gliding (through the air)
- —空位vacant post; vacancy; post in name only
- —空隙vacant space; aperture; gap; opening
- —空行blank line
- —空撮aerial photography
- —空所blank; empty space; gap
- —空挺airborne (troops, operation, etc.)
- —空漠vast; boundless; vague
- —空費waste; wastefulness
- —空包blank cartridge; blank ammunition; blank
- —空名empty name; false reputation
- —空理empty theory; impracticable theory
- —空陸land and air; land and air forces
- —空冷air cooling
- —空論abstract or impracticable theory
- —高空high altitude
- —時空space-time; spacetime
- —制空mastery of the air
- —中空hollow; mid-air; air; sky