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air / atmosphere
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *空* | 空* | *空
empty / air / sky / in vain
HSK 3
air conditioning / air conditioner (including units that have a heating mode) / CL: 臺|台
HSK 3
spare time / free time
HSK 3
space; room / (fig.) scope; leeway / (astronomy) outer space / (physics, math.) space
HSK 4
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *空* | 空* | *空
to empty / vacant / unoccupied / space / leisure / free time
HSK 4
in the sky / in the air
HSK 5
air force / (slang) to fail to catch anything (on a fishing trip); to get skunked
HSK 6
vacant land / open space
HSK 7-9
blank space
HSK 7-9
air crash / aviation accident or incident
HSK 7-9
hollow / emptiness / meaningless
HSK 7-9
unprecedented
HSK 7-9
crack / gap between two objects / gap in time between two events
HSK 7-9
empty; deserted
HSK 7-9
daydream / fantasy / to fantasize
HSK 7-9
empty-handed / unarmed / (painting, embroidery etc) without following a model / (abbr. for 空手道) karate
air base
air war / air warfare
air transport
vacancy
air-to-surface (missile)
abbr. for 空中小姐 / stewardess / air hostess / female flight attendant
an empty stomach
empty / vacuous / nothing / vacant / in vain / all for nothing / air-to-air (missile)
empty place / room (for sb)
to airdrop
flight attendant / cabin crew
spacious and empty / void
prattle / idle chit-chat
leisure; spare time / (of a person) free; unoccupied / (of equipment, rooms etc) unoccupied; unused; idle; vacant; spare
gap (between two objects) / interval of time (between events) / opening in one's schedule / free time / (fig.) gap (in the market etc)
to drop from the sky / (fig.) to appear out of nowhere / (attributive) airborne
see 蕹菜
air pollution
blank / blank space on a form / space / (indicating missing or illegible character)
hollow / (of vegetables) to become hollow or spongy inside / (of a basketball) to swish through (not touching the hoop)
on an empty stomach
empty / hollow / lacking in substance
to make an air raid
phony / so-called / armchair (expert) / vain (promise) / (finance) short-seller / bear (market) / short (selling)
jejunum (empty gut, middle segment of small intestine between duodenum 十二指腸|十二指肠 and ileum 回腸|回肠)
hanging gardens (Babylon etc) / rooftop garden
lit. wind from an empty cave (idiom) / fig. unfounded (story) / baseless (claim)
cavity / empty / vacuous
empty talk / bunk / malicious gossip
bounced check; bad check / (idiom) empty promise
to make a journey for nothing
pavilion in the air (idiom); unrealistic Utopian construction / castles in Spain / imaginary future plans
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
unprecedented and never to be duplicated / the first and the last / unmatched / unique
empty cave, nothing there (idiom); devoid of substance / nothing new to show
aerodynamics
gap / interval
air commodore / top commander of air force
mere verbal statement cannot be taken as proof (idiom)
space bar (keyboard)
paratroopers
stewardess / air hostess
trapeze artist / frequent flyer
atmospheric drag
air-to-surface (missile)
having nothing (idiom); utterly destitute / without two sticks to rub together
air conditioning
Airbus (aerospace company)
air-to-air missile
absolutely empty (space) / complete vacuum
neutral gear
to make empty promises
vacuous reputation / name without substance / in name only / so-called
utopian socialism
impractical dreamer
as empty as anything (idiom); completely bereft / to have nothing / vacuous / hollow / empty (argument, head etc)
disconnected phone number / unassigned phone number
gap / empty space
air force / air defense
karate
vague and general / not specific / shallow / empty
ambitious despite a lack of talent (idiom)
empty handed (carrying nothing) / alone
long-winded empty talk
scarce / poor
empty / desolate
airline steward
idle clamor / to prattle
gap / unoccupied space or time / fig. gap / loophole
flip / somersault
Chinese yo-yo
vanity / empty fantasy / illusion
shallow / empty
incomplete meal of a single dish / meat or vegetable dish without rice or wine / rice without meat or vegetables
idle / free time / leisure
lit. the sound of footsteps in a deserted valley (idiom) / fig. sth hard to come by; sth wonderful and rare
diabolo (Chinese yo-yo)
vacancy / unfilled work place
useless person
airport (abbr. for 航空港)
fake important personage / sham
electron hole (physics)
to intentionally reinterpret a spoken expression as if one had misheard it, for the sake of humor (often, it is a phrase in a foreign language twisted into a similar-sounding phrase in one's native language with a completely different meaning) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 空耳 "soramimi")

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