You should especially not drink on an empty stomach.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
空腹
an empty stomach
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
an empty stomach
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 空腹 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 空腹 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
How many doughnuts can you eat on an empty stomach? Just one. After the first one your stomach isn't empty.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 空腹.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 空腹.
Directly before
- 不该空腹1
Directly after
- 空腹喝酒2
- 空腹能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 空腹
What does 空腹 mean in Chinese?
空腹 (kōngfù) means an empty stomach.
How do you pronounce 空腹?
空腹 is pronounced kōngfù.
Is 空腹 an HSK word?
空腹 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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