くう
Meanings
Noun
1. empty air; sky
2. shunyata; emptiness; the lack of an immutable intrinsic nature within any phenomenon
3. air force
Adjective (な)
Noun
4. fruitlessness; meaninglessness
5. void (one of the five elements)
Adjective (の)
Math
6. empty (e.g. set)
Kanji used
empty air
Pitch accent
Top 12700
Used in vocabulary (118 in total)
air; atmosphere; mood; situation; someone with no presence; someone who doesn't stand out at all
space; room; airspace
sky; air; mid-air
sky; the skies; high-altitude sky; upper air
sky; air; ether; firmament; the heavens
space-time
blank space (in documents); vacuum; blank; void
daydream; fantasy; fancy; vision
cave; hollow; cavity; hollow
emptiness; hollowness; vacancy; inanity; pointlessness; meaninglessness
fictitious; imaginary; fanciful; aerial; overhead
hollow; mid-air; air; sky
to fly through the air; to hurtle through the air; to strike at something and miss; to fan the air
vacuum; hollow; empty
empty seat; unoccupied seat; vacancy; vacant post
air conditioning
air battle; dogfight
anti-aircraft; antiaircraft
vacant land; unoccupied ground; empty lot
low altitude; low sky
aerial bombing
blank column; blank space
air pirate; air piracy
high altitude
vacant space; aperture; gap; opening
racing (an engine); idling (an engine); going in circles (esp. argument, discussion, etc.); spinning one's wheels
unprecedented; record-breaking
empty gun; gun loaded with blanks; firing a blank
aerodynamics
empty (e.g. argument); insubstantial; hollow; fruitless
mid-air breakage or disintegration
mastery of the air
vacant post; vacancy; post in name only
vacant or unoccupied room
abstract or impracticable theory
Air Self-Defense Force; ASDF
territorial airspace
air pressure; pneumatic pressure
waste; wastefulness
empty conveyance; empty taxi; free taxi; having spaces available (of a parking lot)
land, sea, and air; army, navy and air force
air pressure (of tires)
to grasp at the air
noncommissioned officer of the Japanese Air Self Defense Forces (Defence)
bad (fictitious) bill; empty promise
form is emptiness; matter is void; all is vanity
falsehood; lie
vast; boundless; vague
to grasp at the air
emptiness is form; illusion of the reality of matter
with bare hands; with or from nothing
air cooling
senior master sergeant (JASDF)
abstract or impracticable theory
major general (JASDF)
dead letter
air pocket; air hole
blank; empty space; gap
to come to naught; to come to nought
the empty nature of all things
airman first class (JASDF)
horizon; point where the sky meets the earth
empty name; false reputation
the kalpa of nothingness (the final aeon of the universe)
the kalpa of nothingness (the final aeon of the universe)
Amoghasiddhi; Infallible Magic (a dhyani-Buddha)
empty; vacant; void
land and air; land and air forces
complete emptiness (i.e. as a denial of the inherent existence of all things); nirvana (where this emptiness is realized); (arch.) quiet and lonely
airman third class (JASDF)
groundless rumor or story (rumour)
(Self Defense Force's Air Force) general (defence); lieutenant; major
Chinese water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica); ong choy; kang kong; water morning glory; water convolvulus; swamp cabbage
Chinese water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica); ong choy; kang kong; water morning glory; water convolvulus; swamp cabbage
vacant lot or land
international airspace; international space
earth, water, fire, wind and void (the five elements)
earth, water, fire, wind and void (the five elements)
air transportation; air transport
gossip; chatter
airman third class (JASDF)
vast; boundless; wide and empty; vague and hazy
to advance unobstructed
atmospheric vibration; infrasound (as produced by volcanic activity)
vacant and unthinking; something that should be there is not
airman second class (JASDF)
fictitious transaction; paper transaction
null string
airman second class (JASDF)
fictitious transaction; paper transaction
airborne wind power generation; kite power generation
fictitious transaction
explosion without effect; wasted bullets
air writing; spacial calligraphy (artform)
superficial velocity; superficial flow velocity
information on space availability in a parking lot (car park)
empty state; nil state
cavity resonator; microwave resonance cavity; rhumbataron
fictitious stock
deserted and lonesome; quiet and alone; innocent and nonattached; All is void
Examples (1 in total)
The stars are spread all over the night sky.