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空 そら、あ.く、あ.き、あ.ける、から、す.く、す.かす、むな.しい empty, sky, void, vacant, vacuum 5 304 8 116 あな・あなかんむり 形声 Phonetic The craft of creating a black hole is in creating an emptiness which can attract things.

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クウ うつ, き, く 空港(くうこう): airport航空(こうくう): aviation; flying空(から): emptiness; vacuum; blank空気(くうき): (1) air; atmosphere (2) mood; situation (3) someone with no presence; someone who doesn't stand out at all空間(くうかん): space; room; airspace上空(じょうくう): sky; the skies; high-altitude sky; upper air架空(かくう): (1) aerial; overhead (2) fiction; fictitious; imaginary; fanciful空中(くうちゅう): sky; air空き(あき): (1) space; room; emptiness; gap (2) opening; vacancy; empty seat (3) free time; time to spare (4) disuse; unused thing空想(くうそう): daydream; fantasy; fancy; vision空っぽ(からっぽ): empty; vacant; hollow空腹(くうふく): hunger真空(しんくう): vacuum; hollow; empty大空(おおぞら): heavens; firmament; sky空(そら): sky; the heavens空しい(むなしい): vacant; futile; vain; void; empty; ineffective; lifeless空く(すく): (1) to become less crowded; to thin out; to get empty (2) to be hungry空き間(あきま): vacancy; room for rent or lease空(くう): (1) empty air; sky (2) shunya (emptiness, the lack of an immutable intrinsic nature within any phemomenon) (3) air force (4) fruitlessness; meaninglessness (5) void (one of the five elements) 1 穴: hole; aperture; slit; cave; den工: craft; construction; katakana e radical (no. 48) 穴 5 (none) empty Hole-craft is the way of making empty spaces, like the sky.

Kanji	空
Onyomi	クウ
Kunyomi	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
English	empty, sky, void, vacant, vacuum
Examples	空港(くうこう): airport 航空(こうくう): aviation; flying 空(から): emptiness; vacuum; blank 空気(くうき): (1) air; atmosphere (2) mood; situation (3) someone with no presence; someone who doesn't stand out at all 空間(くうかん): space; room; airspace 上空(じょうくう): sky; the skies; high-altitude sky; upper air 架空(かくう): (1) aerial; overhead (2) fiction; fictitious; imaginary; fanciful 空中(くうちゅう): sky; air 空き(あき): (1) space; room; emptiness; gap (2) opening; vacancy; empty seat (3) free time; time to spare (4) disuse; unused thing 空想(くうそう): daydream; fantasy; fancy; vision 空っぽ(からっぽ): empty; vacant; hollow 空腹(くうふく): hunger 真空(しんくう): vacuum; hollow; empty 大空(おおぞら): heavens; firmament; sky 空(そら): sky; the heavens 空しい(むなしい): vacant; futile; vain; void; empty; ineffective; lifeless 空く(すく): (1) to become less crowded; to thin out; to get empty (2) to be hungry 空き間(あきま): vacancy; room for rent or lease 空(くう): (1) empty air; sky (2) shunya (emptiness, the lack of an immutable intrinsic nature within any phemomenon) (3) air force (4) fruitlessness; meaninglessness (5) void (one of the five elements)
JLPT Level	5
Jouyou Grade	1
Frequency	304
Components	穴: hole; aperture; slit; cave; den 工: craft; construction; katakana e radical (no. 48)
Number of Strokes	8
Kanji Radical	穴
Radical Number	116
Radical Strokes	5
Radical Reading	あな・あなかんむり
Traditional Form	(none)
Classification	形声 Phonetic
Keyword	empty
Koohii Story 1	The craft of creating a black hole is in creating an emptiness which can attract things.
Koohii Story 2	Hole-craft is the way of making empty spaces, like the sky.

Empty Sky Air Emptiness Vacuum Space Room Vacancy