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空心

kōngxīn

hollow

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

hollow

02

(of vegetables) to become hollow or spongy inside

03

(of a basketball) to swish through (not touching the hoop)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 空心 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 空心 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

狐狸躲在了空心树里面。hú lí duǒ zài le kōng xīn shù lǐ miàn。

The fox hid in the hollow tree.

我看到一棵老旧的空心山核桃树，周围有一些蜜蜂在飞。wǒ kàn dào yī kē lǎo jiù de kōng xīn shān hé táo shù， zhōu wéi yǒu yī xiē mì fēng zài fēi。

I saw an old and hollow pecan tree that had some bees flying around it.

你说你想要逃，偏偏注定要落脚，情灭了爱熄了，剩下空心要不要nǐ shuō nǐ xiǎng yào táo， piān piān zhù dìng yào luò jiǎo， qíng miè le ài xī le， shèng xià kōng xīn yào bù yào

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 空心.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 空心.

Directly before

  • 了空心1
  • 剩下空心1
  • 的空心1

Directly after

  • 空心树1
  • 空心要1
  • 空心山核桃树1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 空心

What does 空心 mean in Chinese?

空心 (kōngxīn) means hollow.

How do you pronounce 空心?

空心 is pronounced kōngxīn. It also has the reading kòngxīn.

Is 空心 an HSK word?

空心 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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