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
- —空圧air pressure; pneumatic pressure
- —空曹noncommissioned officer of the Japanese Air Self Defense Forces (Defence)
- —成空come to nothingness
- —臨空airport site; adjacent to airport
- —空然vacant and unthinking; something that should be there is not
- —空劫the kalpa of nothingness (the final aeon of the universe)
- —空諦truth of emptiness (holding that all things are void)
- —司空Minister of Works (Zhou dynasty China)
- —空相the empty nature of all things
- —空賊air pirate; air piracy
- —空列null string
- —空胞vacuole (esp. in an animal cell)
- —空腸jejunum
- —空振atmospheric vibration; infrasound (as produced by volcanic activity)
- —空寂complete emptiness (i.e. as a denial of the inherent existence of all things); nirvana (where this emptiness is realized); quiet and lonely
- —蒼空blue sky
- —空狐fox with supernatural powers
- —公空international airspace; international space
- —空自Air Self-Defense Force; ASDF
- —空力aerodynamics