空白

空白 kòngbái in a sentence

Blank space

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 3 sentences

空白 (kòngbái) means Blank space. Below are 3 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

请在 空白 处填上名字。

Qǐng zài kòngbái chù tián shàng míngzi.

Please fill in your name in the blank space.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 空白

这项研究填补了一项 空白 。

Zhè xiàng yánjiū tiánbǔ le yí xiàng kòngbái.

This research fills a gap.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 空白

Reading these is one thing; producing 空白 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

Questions about 空白

How is 空白 used in a sentence?

This page shows 3 sentences using 空白 (kòngbái, "Blank space"), 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.

Is 空白 an HSK word?

Yes — 空白 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 空白?

The dictionary page for 空白 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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