空 (kōng) means Leave (empty - space - sky). Below are 24 of the 69 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
空 调关了吗？
Kōngtiáo guān le ma?
Has the air conditioning been turned off?
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 关
农村的 空 气很好。
Nóngcūn de kōngqì hěn hǎo.
The air in the countryside is very good.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 农村
天 空 是一片蔚蓝。
Tiānkōng shì yí piàn wèilán.
The sky is a stretch of azure.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 蔚蓝
房间里的 空 调坏了。
Fángjiān lǐ de kōngtiáo huài le.
The air conditioner in the room is broken.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 空调
太热了，开 空 调吧。
Tài rè le, kāi kōngtiáo ba.
It's too hot — let's turn on the air conditioning.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 空调
早上的 空 气很新鲜。
Zǎoshang de kōngqì hěn xīnxiān.
The air is fresh in the morning.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 新鲜
郊区的 空 气比较好。
Jiāoqū de kōngqì bǐjiào hǎo.
The air in the suburbs is better.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 郊区
山上的 空 气很新鲜。
Shān shàng de kōngqì hěn xīnxiān.
The air in the mountains is very fresh.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 空气
师傅正在安装 空 调。
Shīfu zhèngzài ānzhuāng kōngtiáo.
The technician is installing the air conditioner.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 安装
傍晚的天 空 非常美。
Bàngwǎn de tiānkōng fēicháng měi.
The sky at dusk is beautiful.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 傍晚
这个房间 空 间很大。
Zhège fángjiān kōngjiān hěn dà.
This room has a lot of space.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 空间
今天的天 空 特别蓝。
Jīntiān de tiānkōng tèbié lán.
The sky is especially blue today.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 天空
地上放着几个 空 筐。
Dì shang fàngzhe jǐ ge kōng kuāng.
Several empty baskets stood on the ground.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 筐
一只鹰在天 空 盘旋。
Yì zhī yīng zài tiānkōng pánxuán.
An eagle circled in the sky.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 盘旋
桌子上有一个 空 瓶子。
Zhuōzi shàng yǒu yí gè kōng píngzi.
There is an empty bottle on the table.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 瓶子
请打开窗户换换 空 气。
Qǐng dǎkāi chuānghu huànhuan kōngqì.
Please open the window to let in some fresh air.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 空气
Reading these is one thing; producing 空 yourself is another. Cloze in Context takes a sentence from this same bank, removes one word and asks you to put it back — beginner, intermediate and advanced.
From the graded readers
我走上台，看着下面那么多张脸，脑子忽然一片 空 白。
wǒ zǒushang tái, kànzhe xiàmian nàme duō zhāng liǎn, nǎozi hūrán yīpiàn kòngbái.
I walked on stage, looked at all those faces, and my mind went blank.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · My First Speech
From the travel phrasebook
空 运多久到？
Kōngyùn duō jiǔ dào?
How long does air freight take?
Travel phrasebook · Shipping and customs
空 appears in 69 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 空
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 空
How is 空 used in a sentence?
This page shows 69 sentences using 空 (kōng, "Leave (empty - space - sky)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 空 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 空 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 空 an HSK word?
Yes — 空 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 空?
The dictionary page for 空 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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