Lingaku空【くう】
Frequency rank: 575.
- empty air; sky
- shunyata; emptiness; the lack of an immutable intrinsic nature within any phenomenonBuddhism
- air forceabbreviationsee also 空軍
- fruitlessness; meaninglessness
- void (one of the five elements)see also 五大
- empty (e.g. set)mathematics
noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
noun (common) (futsuumeishi); adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'
Forms
- 空【くう】Frequency rank: 575.
- くうFrequency rank: 13,903. – 13,943.
Generated definitions (experimental)
- empty air; sky
- shunyata; emptiness; the lack of an immutable intrinsic nature within any phenomenon
- air force
- fruitlessness; meaninglessness
- void (one of the five elements)
- empty (e.g. set)
This meaning refers to the physical space above the Earth, often used in contexts related to weather, nature, or the atmosphere.
In philosophical or spiritual contexts, this meaning discusses the concept of emptiness, which signifies that things do not possess an inherent, unchanging essence.
This meaning pertains to military aviation, specifically referencing the branch of the armed forces responsible for aerial operations.
This meaning conveys a sense of futility or the lack of significant outcomes in an endeavor or situation.
Everything felt meaningless.
This meaning relates to cosmological theories, particularly in the context of the five elements that make up existence, with void representing emptiness or space.
This mathematical or logical meaning indicates a state of having no elements or being vacant, often used in set theory.
Generated collocations (experimental)
そらをとぶ空を飛ぶto fly in the skyそら空をみあげる見上げるto look up at the skyくうき空気airからっぽ空っぽemptyそら空きごう記号placeholderくうこう空港airportそら空をつくる作るto create a voidくうきょ空虚emptinessむ無のそら空void of nothingnessくうぐん空軍air forceそら空のはて果てend of the skyくうかん空間spaceくうどう空洞hollow; voidせいしん精神のそら空emptiness of the mindそら空にかかる架かるにじ虹rainbow in the sky