Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
cave
Parts:
empty, sky, void, vacant, vacuum
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N4
304 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 空 【クウ】 empty air, sky, shunyata (the lack of an immutable intrinsic nature within any phenomenon), emptiness, air force, fruitlessness, meaninglessness, void (one of the five elements), empty (e.g. set)
  • 空域 【クウイキ】 airspace
  • 領空 【リョウクウ】 territorial airspace
  • 防空 【ボウクウ】 air defense, air defence

Kun reading compounds

  • 空 【そら】 sky, the air, the heavens, weather, far-off place, distant place, state of mind, feeling, (from) memory, (by) heart, falsehood, lie, somehow, vaguely, fake
  • 空模様 【そらもよう】 look of the sky, weather
  • 定めなき空 【さだめなきそら】 changeable weather
  • 晴れた空 【はれたそら】 clear sky, cloudless sky
  • 開く 【あく】 to open (e.g. doors), to open (e.g. business, etc.), to be empty, to be vacant, to be available, to be free, to be open (e.g. neckline, etc.), to have been opened (of one's eyes, mouth, etc.), to come to an end, to open (one's eyes, mouth, etc.), to have a hole, to form a gap, to have an interval (between events)
  • 空き 【あき】 space, room, gap, emptiness, vacancy, opening, empty seat, free time, time to spare, disuse, unused thing
  • 空き缶 【あきかん】 empty can
  • 開ける 【あける】 to open (a door, etc.), to unwrap (e.g. parcel, package), to unlock, to open (for business, etc.), to empty, to remove, to make space, to make room, to move out, to clear out, to be away from (e.g. one's house), to leave (temporarily), to dawn, to grow light, to end (of a period, season), to begin (of the New Year), to leave (one's schedule) open, to make time (for), to make (a hole), to open up (a hole)
  • 空 【から】 emptiness, being empty, not carrying anything, unburdened, empty-handed, dishonoured (bill, promise, etc.), false, no-show (reservation), put-on (cheeriness, courage, etc.), empty (compliments), insincere
  • 空手 【からて】 karate, being empty-handed, having nothing in one's hands
  • もぬけの殻 【もぬけのから】 completely empty (of a residence, etc.), vacant, deserted, body from which the soul has left, corpse, shed skin (of a snake, insect, etc.)
  • 空く 【すく】 to become less crowded, to thin out, to get empty, to be hungry
  • 空かす 【すかす】 to feel hungry, to get hungry
  • 虚しい 【むなしい】 empty, void, vacant, vain, fruitless, futile, ineffective, lifeless

Readings

Japanese names:
うつ、 き、 く
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
kong1, kong4
Korean:
gong

Spanish

  • cielo
  • atmósfera
  • vacío
  • vacante
  • quedarse vacío
  • vaciar

Portuguese

  • esvaziar
  • ceú
  • desocupado
  • vazio
  • vácuo

French

  • vide
  • ciel
  • vacant
  • creux
65 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
66 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
15 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
233 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3317 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
184 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
77 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
723 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.17 Japanese for Busy People
140 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
140 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
461 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1452 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2767 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1418 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1913 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1327 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
25415 Morohashi
2227 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4192 New Nelson (John Haig)
1317 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1414 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
304 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
73 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
772 2001 Kanji
3m5.12 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-5 SKIP code
2-5-3 SKIP code
3010.1 Four corner code
1-22-85 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7a7a Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
frame, framework, spindle, spool, bounding-box, (kokuji)
Kun:
わく
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
922 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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Kun reading compounds

  • 枠 【わく】 frame, framework, border, box, limit, restriction, quota, category, bracket, class, time slot (in a broadcasting schedule), stream, livestream, live stream, live (online) broadcast, spool (of thread), reel
  • 枠外 【わくがい】 (beyond the) limits, scope, boundary
  • 型枠 【かたわく】 formwork, shuttering, mold, mould, form
  • 鋼枠 【こうわく】 steel formwork, steel sets

Readings

Spanish

  • marco
  • armazón
  • rango
  • alcance

Portuguese

  • moldura
  • estrutura
  • carretel
  • cilindro

French

  • cadre
  • structure
  • bobine
  • bounding box (graph.)
  • (kokuji)
1943 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
2047 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2205 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1421 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1907 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2079 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
510 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1082 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1077 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
582 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
771 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
204 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14576 Morohashi
866 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2585 New Nelson (John Haig)
200 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
212 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1197 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1855 2001 Kanji
4a4.19 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-4 SKIP code
4494.1 Four corner code
1-47-40 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
67a0 Unicode hex code