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空闲

kòng xián

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 空閒

空闲 (kòng xián) means "idle, free time". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 空闲 means

1. leisure; spare time
2. (of a person) free; unoccupied
3. (of equipment, rooms etc) unused; idle; vacant

The characters in 空闲

• 空kōngempty; air; sky
• 闲xiánenclosure; (variant of 闲; unoccupied

Example sentences

• 您空闲时间喜欢做什幺？
  What do you like to do in your free time?
• 你空闲时间喜欢做什幺？
  What do you like to do in your free time?
• 她利用空闲时间做布娃娃。
  Tā lìyòng kòngxián shíjiān zuò bùwáwa.
  She spends her free time making dolls.
• 您空闲的时候喜欢干甚么呢？
  What do you like to do in your spare time?
• 我把空闲时间全都花在阅读上。
  Wǒ bǎ kòngxián shíjiān quán dōu huā zài yuèdú shàng.
  I spend all my free time reading.
• 遗憾的是我空闲时间不会有很多。
  Yíhàn de shì wǒ kòngxián shíjiān bù huì yǒu hěn duō.
  Unfortunately I will not have much free time.

Where 空闲 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Competition, Fitness & Timing (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read kòng xián correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.