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虛空 means void, hollow, empty, space, sky, atmosphere, heaven, or ether.
虛空 is the Chinese and Japanese version of the Sanskrit word ākāśa (or akasa / akash) which, beyond the sky or space meaning can be the immaterial universe behind all phenomena in the Buddhist context.
(Used in Japanese version of five elements)
空 is a single character that means empty, void, hollow, vacant, vacuum, blank, nonexistent, vacuity, voidness, emptiness, non-existence, immateriality, unreality, the false or illusory nature of all existence, and being unreal.
In the Buddhist context, this relates to the doctrine that all phenomena and the ego have no reality but are composed of a certain number of skandhas or elements, which disintegrate. The void, the sky, space. The universal, the absolute, complete abstraction without relativity. The doctrine further explains that all things are compounds, or unstable organisms, possessing no self-essence, i.e. are dependent, or caused, come into existence only to perish. The underlying reality, the principle of eternal relativity, or non-infinity, i.e. śūnya, permeates all phenomena making possible their evolution.
From Sanskrit and/or Pali, this is the translation to Chinese and Japanese of the title śūnya or śūnyatā.
In Japanese, when pronounced as “ron” (sounds like “roan”) this can be a given name. It should be noted that this Kanji has about 5 different possible pronunciations in Japanese: kuu, kara, sora, ron, and uro. 空 is also an element in the Japanese version of the five elements.
Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your hollow search...
Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
乾 干 see styles |
gān gan1 kan ken けん |
More info & calligraphy: Qianqian (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: heaven, northwest); (surname) Nukui Dry, dried up, clean; heaven, male, masculine, enduring, continual. Translit. gan and h. |
眼 see styles |
yǎn yan3 yen manako まなこ |
More info & calligraphy: Eyeballs / Eyes(1) eye; eyeball; (2) (archaism) pupil and (dark) iris of the eye; (3) (archaism) insight; perceptivity; power of observation; (4) (archaism) look; field of vision; (5) (archaism) core; center; centre; essence; (surname) Mesaki cakṣuh, the eye. |
空 see styles |
kòng kong4 k`ung kung kuu / ku くう |
More info & calligraphy: Sky / Ether / Void / Emptiness / Unreality(1) empty air; sky; (2) {Buddh} shunyata (the lack of an immutable intrinsic nature within any phenomenon); emptiness; (3) (abbreviation) (See 空軍) air force; (noun or adjectival noun) (4) fruitlessness; meaninglessness; (noun or adjectival noun) (5) (See 五大・1) void (one of the five elements); (can be adjective with の) (6) {math} empty (e.g. set); (female given name) Ron śūnya, empty, void, hollow, vacant, nonexistent. śūnyatā, 舜若多, vacuity, voidness, emptiness, non-existence, immateriality, perhaps spirituality, unreality, the false or illusory nature of all existence, the seeming 假 being unreal. The doctrine that all phenomena and the ego have no reality, but are composed of a certain number of skandhas or elements, which disintegrate. The void, the sky, space. The universal, the absolute, complete abstraction without relativity. There are classifications into 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 11, 13, 16, and 18 categories. The doctrine is that all things are compounds, or unstable organisms, possessing no self-essence, i.e. are dependent, or caused, come into existence only to perish. The underlying reality, the principle of eternal relativity, or non-infinity, i.e. śūnya, permeates all phenomena making possible their evolution. From this doctrine the Yogācārya school developed the idea of the permanent reality, which is Essence of Mind, the unknowable noumenon behind all phenomena, the entity void of ideas and phenomena, neither matter nor mind, but the root of both. |
鬆 松 see styles |
sōng song1 sung su す |
loose; to loosen; to relax; floss (dry, fluffy food product made from shredded, seasoned meat or fish, used as a topping or filling) (1) (kana only) cavity (in old root vegetables, tofu, metal casting, etc.); pore; hollow; bubble; blowhole; (can be adjective with の) (2) (kana only) porous; pithy; spongy |
虛空 虚空 see styles |
xū kōng xu1 kong1 hsü k`ung hsü kung kokū |
More info & calligraphy: Nothingness / Empty / Voidśūnya; empty, void, space; ākāśa, in the sense of space, or the ether; gagana, the sky, atmosphere, heaven; kha, space, sky, ether, 虛 is defined as that which is without shape or substantiality, 空 as that which has no resistance. The immaterial universe behind all phenomena. |
ホロー see styles |
horoo ホロー |
(n,n-pref) hollow; (surname) Borrow |
凹 see styles |
wā wa1 wa ou / o おう |
variant of 窪|洼[wa1]; (used in names) (prefix) (See 凹レンズ) concave; hollow; sunken |
坑 see styles |
kēng keng1 k`eng keng kou / ko こう |
pit; depression; hollow; tunnel; hole in the ground; (archaic) to bury alive; to hoodwink; to cheat (sb) (n,n-suf) pit (esp. of a mine) chasm |
坳 see styles |
ào ao4 ao |
depression; cavity; hollow; Taiwan pr. [ao1] |
夼 see styles |
kuǎng kuang3 k`uang kuang |
low ground; hollow; depression (used in Shandong place names) |
敔 see styles |
yǔ yu3 yü |
percussion instrument shaped as a hollow wooden tiger, with serrated strip across the back, across which one runs a drumstick |
枵 see styles |
xiāo xiao1 hsiao |
(archaic) hollow of a tree; (literary) empty; hollow |
洞 see styles |
dòng dong4 tung hora ほら |
cave; hole; zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers); CL:個|个[ge4] hollow; cavity; hole; cave; (surname) Horasaki A hole, cave; to see through, know. |
浮 see styles |
fú fu2 fu uki うき |
to float; superficial; floating; unstable; movable; provisional; temporary; transient; impetuous; hollow; inflated; to exceed; superfluous; excessive; surplus (surname) Uki Floating, drifting, unsettled. |
溛 see styles |
wā wa1 wa |
to form hollow; pit |
秕 see styles |
bǐ bi3 pi shiina / shina しいな |
grain not fully grown; husks; withered grain; unripe grain (1) empty grain husk; immature ear (e.g. wheat); hollow object; (2) unripe fruit |
稈 秆 see styles |
gǎn gan3 kan kan かん |
stalks of grain culm (hollow stem of a grass) |
窅 see styles |
yǎo yao3 yao |
sunken eyes; deep and hollow; remote and obscure; variant of 杳[yao3] |
窩 窝 see styles |
wō wo1 wo |
nest; pit or hollow on the human body; lair; den; place; to harbor or shelter; to hold in check; to bend; classifier for litters and broods |
窪 洼 see styles |
wā wa1 wa kubosaki くぼさき |
depression; low-lying area; low-lying; sunken (1) hollow; cavity; sunken place; (2) (archaism) vagina; female genitalia; (surname) Kubosaki |
窾 see styles |
kuǎn kuan3 k`uan kuan |
crack; hollow; cavity; to excavate or hollow out; (onom.) water hitting rock; (old) variant of 款[kuan3] |
膛 see styles |
táng tang2 t`ang tang |
(bound form) hollow space |
芤 see styles |
kōu kou1 k`ou kou |
hollow; scallion stalk |
鬲 see styles |
lì li4 li reki れき |
ancient ceramic three-legged vessel used for cooking with cord markings on the outside and hollow legs (rare) Chinese kettle with three legs |
中低 see styles |
nakabiku なかびく |
(noun or adjectival noun) hollow; concave |
中空 see styles |
zhōng kōng zhong1 kong1 chung k`ung chung kung chuukuu; nakazora / chuku; nakazora ちゅうくう; なかぞら |
hollow; empty interior (adj-no,n) (1) (ちゅうくう only) hollow; (noun - becomes adjective with の) (2) mid-air; air; sky; (surname) Nakazora |
乳溝 乳沟 see styles |
rǔ gōu ru3 gou1 ju kou |
cleavage (hollow between a woman's breasts) |
乾笑 干笑 see styles |
gān xiào gan1 xiao4 kan hsiao |
to give a hollow laugh; to force a smile; forced laugh; CL:聲|声[sheng1] |
六腑 see styles |
liù fǔ liu4 fu3 liu fu roppu ろっぷ |
(TCM) the six hollow organs: gallbladder 膽|胆[dan3], stomach 胃[wei4], large intestine 大腸|大肠[da4chang2], small intestine 小腸|小肠[xiao3chang2], triple heater 三焦[san1jiao1], bladder 膀胱[pang2guang1] the six internal organs (large intestine, small intestine, gallbladder, stomach, san jiao, urinary bladder) |
凹み see styles |
hekomi へこみ kubomi くぼみ |
hollow; cavity; dent; depression |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Sky Void | 虛空 虚空 | kokū | xū kōng / xu1 kong1 / xu kong / xukong | hsü k`ung / hsükung / hsü kung |
Sky Ether Void Emptiness Unreality | 空 | kuu / kara / sora / ron ku / kara / sora / ron | kōng / kong1 / kong | k`ung / kung |
In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. |
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