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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *白* | 白* | *白
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
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *乾* | 乾* | *乾
dry / dried food / empty; hollow / taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster / futile; in vain / (dialect) rude; blunt / (dialect) to cold-shoulder
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拉* | 拉* | *拉
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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  *空* | 空* | *空
empty / air / sky / in vain
HSK 3
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *空* | 空* | *空
to empty / vacant / unoccupied / space / leisure / free time
HSK 4
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *虛* | 虛* | *虛
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
to pour into / to empty into
HSK 7-9
hollow / emptiness / meaningless
HSK 7-9
empty; deserted
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *咕* | 咕* | *咕
(onom.) for the sound of a bird, an empty stomach etc
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *唐* | 唐* | *唐
to exaggerate / empty / in vain / old variant of
empty-handed / unarmed / (painting, embroidery etc) without following a model / (abbr. for 空手道) karate
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *控* | 控* | *控
to control / to accuse / to charge / to sue / to invert a container to empty it / (suffix) (slang) buff / enthusiast / devotee / -phile or -philia
empty-handed (idiom); fig. not receiving anything
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *徒* | 徒* | *徒
disciple; apprentice; believer / on foot / bare; empty / to no avail / only / prison sentence
void / hollow / empty
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *枵* | 枵* | *枵
(archaic) hollow of a tree / (literary) empty; hollow
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)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *癟* | 癟* | *癟
deflated / shriveled / sunken / empty
(idiom) to bluff; to bluster; to make an empty show of strength
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
to dump; to pour out; to empty out
an empty stomach
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *罄* | 罄* | *罄
to use up / to exhaust / empty
empty place / room (for sb)
empty / vacuous / nothing / vacant / in vain / all for nothing / air-to-air (missile)
spacious and empty / void
great emptiness / the void / heaven / the skies / universe / cosmos / original essence of the cosmos
on an empty stomach
empty / hollow / lacking in substance
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嵺* | 嵺* | *嵺
(literary) vast and empty
jejunum (empty gut, middle segment of small intestine between duodenum 十二指腸|十二指肠 and ileum 回腸|回肠)
hollow / empty interior
lit. wind from an empty cave (idiom) / fig. unfounded (story) / baseless (claim)
absolutely empty (space) / complete vacuum
cavity / empty / vacuous
empty talk / bunk / malicious gossip
desolate / empty
bounced check; bad check / (idiom) empty promise
lit. the cicada sheds its carapace (idiom); fig. to vanish leaving an empty shell / a crafty escape plan
lit. a banquet with no empty seats / full house / capacity crowd / standing room only
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
lit. the occupants have gone and the place is now empty (idiom) / fig. (of a dwelling) empty; deserted
empty cave, nothing there (idiom); devoid of substance / nothing new to show
the multitudes come out from everywhere, emptying every alleyway (to celebrate) / the whole town turns out
empty words / false words
to empty out one's pocket / (fig.) to give everything one has (to help)
vast and empty
imaginary reputation / empty fame
to make empty promises
to defecate / to empty one's bowels
empty words / bogus speech
(of a theater) to empty / (of a show) to end
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *槺* | 槺* | *槺
empty space inside a building
dead letter / rule no longer in force / empty formality
to gain nothing / to end up empty-handed
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
to move swiftly / to speed / to run after (empty fame, power, money etc)
as empty as anything (idiom); completely bereft / to have nothing / vacuous / hollow / empty (argument, head etc)
gap / empty space
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *匱* | 匱* | *匱
to lack / lacking / empty / exhausted
(lit.) to fire blank shots / (fig.) to be all talk and no action / to shoot one's mouth off / to make empty promises
vague and general / not specific / shallow / empty
empty handed (carrying nothing) / alone
forgetful / empty-headed
(literary) quiet and desolate / lonely / vast and empty
white hand / empty-handed
to sing the high part / to speak fine sounding but empty words (idiom)
long-winded empty talk
empty / desolate
as if one had lost something (idiom) / to look or feel unsettled or distracted / to feel empty
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *寥* | 寥* | *寥
empty / lonesome / very few
vanity / empty fantasy / illusion
shallow / empty
trite / clichéd / empty and trite / banality / platitude
petty thief (lit. quick fingered and vanish) / empty-handed / having nothing
to hollow out / to empty out / to use up / (finance) tunneling
to urinate / to empty one's bladder
to talk without any intention of acting on it / empty prattle
emptiness
empty formality
empty / deserted
empty and silent / desolate
empty set (set theory)
empty nest / a home where the kids have grown up and moved out
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)
to drain out; to empty / to discharge (waste gas) into the air / to soar up into the sky
to return empty (i.e. to drive back with no passengers or freight)
to return empty-handed / to fail to win anything
empty wrist (method of painting)
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
to exist in name only / empty shell / useless (idiom)
sound made by an empty stomach
nothing / empty
to empty (a bag) / to turn inside out / to turn out
empty shell
lit. a full bottle makes no sound; a half-filled bottle sloshes (idiom) / fig. empty vessels make the most noise
one can't function properly on an empty stomach (idiom) / an empty sack cannot stand upright
empty talk / mere rhetoric / palaver
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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