| | white / snowy / pure / bright / empty / blank / plain / clear / to make clear / in vain / gratuitous / free of charge / reactionary / anti-communist / funeral / to stare coldly / to write wrong character / to state / to explain / vernacular / spoken lines in opera | HSK 1 |
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| | dry / dried food / empty; hollow / taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster / futile; in vain / (dialect) rude; blunt / (dialect) to cold-shoulder | HSK 1 |
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| | to pull / to play (a bowed instrument) / to drag / to draw / to chat / (coll.) to empty one's bowels | HSK 2 |
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| | empty / air / sky / in vain | HSK 3 |
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| | to empty / vacant / unoccupied / space / leisure / free time | HSK 4 |
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| | emptiness / void / abstract theory or guiding principles / empty or unoccupied / diffident or timid / false / humble or modest / (of health) weak / virtual / in vain | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to pour into / to empty into | HSK 7-9 |
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| | hollow / emptiness / meaningless | HSK 7-9 |
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| | empty; deserted | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (onom.) for the sound of a bird, an empty stomach etc | |
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| | to exaggerate / empty / in vain / old variant of 螗 | |
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| | empty-handed / unarmed / (painting, embroidery etc) without following a model / (abbr. for 空手道) karate | |
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| | to control / to accuse / to charge / to sue / to invert a container to empty it / (suffix) (slang) buff / enthusiast / devotee / -phile or -philia | |
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| | empty-handed (idiom); fig. not receiving anything | |
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| | disciple; apprentice; believer / on foot / bare; empty / to no avail / only / prison sentence | |
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| | void / hollow / empty | |
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| | (archaic) hollow of a tree / (literary) empty; hollow | |
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| | to restore sth to its initial state / to reset (an odometer etc) / to empty (a bank account) / to eradicate (a disease) / (computing) to clear (memory) / to zero (a hard drive) | |
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| | deflated / shriveled / sunken / empty | |
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| | (idiom) to bluff; to bluster; to make an empty show of strength | |
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| | to relax completely / to empty one's mind / (finance) to sell short / (of a commercial vehicle) to travel empty (no cargo or passengers) / to deadhead | |
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| | to dump; to pour out; to empty out | |
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| | an empty stomach | |
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| | to use up / to exhaust / empty | |
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| | empty place / room (for sb) | |
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| | empty / vacuous / nothing / vacant / in vain / all for nothing / air-to-air (missile) | |
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| | spacious and empty / void | |
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| | great emptiness / the void / heaven / the skies / universe / cosmos / original essence of the cosmos | |
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| | on an empty stomach | |
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| | empty / hollow / lacking in substance | |
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| | (literary) vast and empty | |
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| | jejunum (empty gut, middle segment of small intestine between duodenum 十二指腸|十二指肠 and ileum 回腸|回肠) | |
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| | hollow / empty interior | |
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| | lit. wind from an empty cave (idiom) / fig. unfounded (story) / baseless (claim) | |
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| | absolutely empty (space) / complete vacuum | |
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| | cavity / empty / vacuous | |
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| | empty talk / bunk / malicious gossip | |
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| | desolate / empty | |
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| | bounced check; bad check / (idiom) empty promise | |
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| | lit. the cicada sheds its carapace (idiom); fig. to vanish leaving an empty shell / a crafty escape plan | |
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| | lit. a banquet with no empty seats / full house / capacity crowd / standing room only | |
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| | the empty city stratagem (in which Zhuge Liang presents himself as unperturbed while making it evident that his city is undefended, hoping his adversary will suspect an ambush); double bluff | |
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| | lit. the occupants have gone and the place is now empty (idiom) / fig. (of a dwelling) empty; deserted | |
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| | empty cave, nothing there (idiom); devoid of substance / nothing new to show | |
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| | the multitudes come out from everywhere, emptying every alleyway (to celebrate) / the whole town turns out | |
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| | empty words / false words | |
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| | to empty out one's pocket / (fig.) to give everything one has (to help) | |
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| | vast and empty | |
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| | imaginary reputation / empty fame | |
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| | to make empty promises | |
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| | to defecate / to empty one's bowels | |
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| | empty words / bogus speech | |
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| | (of a theater) to empty / (of a show) to end | |
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| | empty space inside a building | |
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| | dead letter / rule no longer in force / empty formality | |
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| | to gain nothing / to end up empty-handed | |
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| | lit. to sing "The Empty City Stratagem" (idiom) / fig. to put up a bluff to conceal one's weakness / (jocular) (of a place etc) to be empty; (of one's stomach) to be rumbling | |
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| | to move swiftly / to speed / to run after (empty fame, power, money etc) | |
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| | as empty as anything (idiom); completely bereft / to have nothing / vacuous / hollow / empty (argument, head etc) | |
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| | gap / empty space | |
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| | to lack / lacking / empty / exhausted | |
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| | (lit.) to fire blank shots / (fig.) to be all talk and no action / to shoot one's mouth off / to make empty promises | |
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| | vague and general / not specific / shallow / empty | |
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| | empty handed (carrying nothing) / alone | |
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| | forgetful / empty-headed | |
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| | (literary) quiet and desolate / lonely / vast and empty | |
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| | white hand / empty-handed | |
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| | to sing the high part / to speak fine sounding but empty words (idiom) | |
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| | long-winded empty talk | |
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| | empty / desolate | |
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| | as if one had lost something (idiom) / to look or feel unsettled or distracted / to feel empty | |
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| | empty / lonesome / very few | |
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| | vanity / empty fantasy / illusion | |
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| | shallow / empty | |
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| | trite / clichéd / empty and trite / banality / platitude | |
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| | petty thief (lit. quick fingered and vanish) / empty-handed / having nothing | |
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| | to hollow out / to empty out / to use up / (finance) tunneling | |
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| | to urinate / to empty one's bladder | |
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| | to talk without any intention of acting on it / empty prattle | |
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| | emptiness | |
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| | empty formality | |
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| | empty / deserted | |
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| | empty and silent / desolate | |
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| | empty set (set theory) | |
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| | empty nest / a home where the kids have grown up and moved out | |
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| | to leave a message / to leave some empty space in a work of art / to leave idle moments (in one's life, a theater play etc) | |
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| | to drain out; to empty / to discharge (waste gas) into the air / to soar up into the sky | |
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| | to return empty (i.e. to drive back with no passengers or freight) | |
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| | to return empty-handed / to fail to win anything | |
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| | empty wrist (method of painting) | |
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| | lit. if you tap a half-empty bottle it makes a sound (idiom) / fig. empty vessels make the most noise / one who has a little knowledge likes to show off, but one who is truly knowledgeable is modest | |
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| | to exist in name only / empty shell / useless (idiom) | |
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| | sound made by an empty stomach | |
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| | nothing / empty | |
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| | to empty (a bag) / to turn inside out / to turn out | |
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| | empty shell | |
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| | lit. a full bottle makes no sound; a half-filled bottle sloshes (idiom) / fig. empty vessels make the most noise | |
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| | one can't function properly on an empty stomach (idiom) / an empty sack cannot stand upright | |
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| | empty talk / mere rhetoric / palaver | |
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| | the sky hangs low over the Yangtze, empty as far as the eye can see (idiom); nothing to see to the broad horizon | |
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