橫空

Chinese

		unruly; horizontal; across unruly; horizontal; across; (horizontal character stroke)	emptied; leisure; air emptied; leisure; air; sky; empty; in vain
trad. (橫空)		橫	空
simp. (横空)		横	空

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): héngkōng

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄥˊ ㄎㄨㄥ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: héngkōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄥˊ ㄎㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: héngkong
    • Wade–Giles: hêng²-kʻung¹
    • Yale: héng-kūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: herngkong
    • Palladius: хэнкун (xɛnkun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤŋ³⁵ kʰʊŋ⁵⁵/

Verb

橫空

1. (literary) to arch across the sky
2. (literary) to fill the atmosphere; to be covering the sky

Derived terms

• 橫空出世 / 横空出世 (héngkōngchūshì)