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空虚

kōng xū

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 空虛

空虚 (kōng xū) means "hollow; emptiness; meaningless". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 空虚 means

1. hollow
2. emptiness
3. meaningless

The characters in 空虚

• 空kōngempty; air; sky
• 虚xūemptiness; void; abstract theory or guiding principles

Example sentences

• 没有他我的生活是空虚的。
  Méiyǒu tā wǒ de shēnghuó shì kōngxū de.
  My life is hollow without him.
• 我承认，没有他，我未来十年的生活将会是空虚的、没有目标的。
  Wǒ chéngrèn, méiyǒu tā, wǒ wèilái shí nián de shēnghuó jiānghuì shì kōngxū de, méiyǒu mùbiāo de.
  I admit that if it weren't for him, the next ten years of my life would have been empty and devoid of purpose.

Where 空虚 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · kěn–kōng (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read kōng xū correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.