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空

JLPT N5 SL1 8 strokes Frequency: #120

Meanings

sky, empty, void, vacant, hollow

Radicals

穴

Decomposition

⿱穴工

Etymology

Pictophonetic: cave

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 8

Stroke Order

1 vertical right-to-left

2 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

3 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

4 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

5 curve bottom-right-to-top-left

6 horizontal bottom-to-top

7 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

8 horizontal bottom-to-top

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

クウ kuu

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

そら sora

ぞら zora

から kara

す su

あ a

むな muna

Words Using This Kanji

755 words total

クウ (8 words)

空気くうき

air / atmosphere / mood

上空じょうくう

upper air / sky above / overhead

空腹くうふく

hunger / empty stomach

天空てんくう

sky / heavens / firmament

中空ちゅうくう

hollow / cavity / inside space

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あ (1 words)

手が空くてがあく

be free

そら (1 words)

sky / empty

ぞら (2 words)

青空あおぞら

blue sky / clear sky

夜空よぞら

night sky / evening sky

Other (743 words)

空空くうくう

empty

空空くうくう

empty

空でそらで

off the top of one's head

to become less crowded

space

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