"懸空" meaning in Chinese

See 懸空 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ɕy̯ɛn³⁵ kʰʊŋ⁵⁵/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA], /jyːn²¹ hʊŋ⁵⁵/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /hiaŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ kʰoŋ³³/ [Sinological-IPA, Teochew], /ɕy̯ɛn³⁵ kʰʊŋ⁵⁵/, /jyːn²¹ hʊŋ⁵⁵/, /hiaŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ kʰoŋ³³/ Chinese transliterations: xuánkōng [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄒㄩㄢˊ ㄎㄨㄥ [Mandarin, bopomofo], jyun⁴ hung¹ [Cantonese, Jyutping], hiang⁵ kong¹, xuánkōng [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin], syuánkong [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin], hsüan²-kʻung¹ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles], sywán-kūng [Mandarin, Yale], shyuankong [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin], сюанькун [Mandarin, Palladius], sjuanʹkun [Mandarin, Palladius], yùhn hūng [Cantonese, Yale], jyn⁴ hung¹ [Cantonese, Pinyin], yun⁴ hung¹ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization], hiang⁵ kong¹ [Peng'im, Teochew], hiâng khong [POJ, Teochew] Forms: 悬空
Head templates: {{zh-verb}} 懸空
  1. (literal) to suspend in the air
    Sense id: en-懸空-zh-verb-imH4JH25
  2. (figurative) to hang in the balance Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-懸空-zh-verb-uQBqJzQp Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 6 56 3 36 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 6 71 4 19 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 82 4 11
  3. (of a position, job, etc.) to be vacant Tags: usually
    Sense id: en-懸空-zh-verb-2gstW3OF
  4. (grammar) to strand Categories (topical): Grammar
    Sense id: en-懸空-zh-verb-ynobQ667 Categories (other): Mandarin terms with collocations Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: 懸空寺, 悬空寺, 懸空電車, 悬空电车
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    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "懸空電車"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "悬空电车"
    }
  ],
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          "_dis": "6 71 4 19",
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        "(figurative) to hang in the balance"
      ],
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      ],
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      ],
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      ],
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    },
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            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "preposition stranding",
          "roman": "jiècí xuánkōng",
          "text": "介詞懸空/介词悬空"
        },
        {
          "english": "The existence of this null element violates the restriction in Chinese where prepositions cannot be stranded; thus, it is ungrammatical.",
          "raw_tags": [
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          "ref": "2004, 邓思颖 [Sze-Wing Tang], “从南雄珠玑方言看被动句 [Structures of Passives as Illustrated by Zhuji Dialect Spoken in Nanxiong, Northern Guangdong Province]”, in 《方言》, number 2, page 112:",
          "roman": "Cúnzài zhège kōng de chéngfèn wéifǎnle Hànyǔ jiècí bùdé xuánkōng de xiànzhì, yīncǐ bù hé yǔfǎ.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "存在这个空的成分违反了汉语介词不得悬空的限制,因此不合语法。",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "The existence of this null element violates the restriction in Chinese where prepositions cannot be stranded; thus, it is ungrammatical.",
          "raw_tags": [
            "MSC",
            "Traditional Chinese"
          ],
          "ref": "2004, 邓思颖 [Sze-Wing Tang], “从南雄珠玑方言看被动句 [Structures of Passives as Illustrated by Zhuji Dialect Spoken in Nanxiong, Northern Guangdong Province]”, in 《方言》, number 2, page 112:",
          "roman": "Cúnzài zhège kōng de chéngfèn wéifǎnle Hànyǔ jiècí bùdé xuánkōng de xiànzhì, yīncǐ bù hé yǔfǎ.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "存在這個空的成分違反了漢語介詞不得懸空的限制,因此不合語法。",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to strand"
      ],
      "id": "en-懸空-zh-verb-ynobQ667",
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          "grammar",
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        ],
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          "strand",
          "strand"
        ]
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        "(grammar) to strand"
      ],
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        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
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        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xuánkōng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄒㄩㄢˊ ㄎㄨㄥ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "jyun⁴ hung¹"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "hiang⁵ kong¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xuánkōng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "syuánkong"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hsüan²-kʻung¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "sywán-kūng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "shyuankong"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "сюанькун"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "sjuanʹkun"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɕy̯ɛn³⁵ kʰʊŋ⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "yùhn hūng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "jyn⁴ hung¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "yun⁴ hung¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/jyːn²¹ hʊŋ⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Peng'im",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hiang⁵ kong¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "POJ",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hiâng khong"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hiaŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ kʰoŋ³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Teochew"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɕy̯ɛn³⁵ kʰʊŋ⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/jyːn²¹ hʊŋ⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hiaŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ kʰoŋ³³/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "懸空"
}
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    "Chinese lemmas",
    "Chinese terms spelled with 懸",
    "Chinese terms spelled with 空",
    "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Chinese verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "懸空寺"
    },
    {
      "word": "悬空寺"
    },
    {
      "word": "懸空電車"
    },
    {
      "word": "悬空电车"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
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      "raw_tags": [
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  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to suspend in the air"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "suspend",
          "suspend"
        ]
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literal) to suspend in the air"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to hang in the balance"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hang",
          "hang"
        ],
        [
          "balance",
          "balance"
        ]
      ],
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        "(figurative) to hang in the balance"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
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    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to be vacant"
      ],
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        ]
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        "(of a position, job, etc.) to be vacant"
      ],
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        "zh:Grammar"
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        {
          "english": "preposition stranding",
          "roman": "jiècí xuánkōng",
          "text": "介詞懸空/介词悬空"
        },
        {
          "english": "The existence of this null element violates the restriction in Chinese where prepositions cannot be stranded; thus, it is ungrammatical.",
          "raw_tags": [
            "MSC",
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          ],
          "ref": "2004, 邓思颖 [Sze-Wing Tang], “从南雄珠玑方言看被动句 [Structures of Passives as Illustrated by Zhuji Dialect Spoken in Nanxiong, Northern Guangdong Province]”, in 《方言》, number 2, page 112:",
          "roman": "Cúnzài zhège kōng de chéngfèn wéifǎnle Hànyǔ jiècí bùdé xuánkōng de xiànzhì, yīncǐ bù hé yǔfǎ.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "存在这个空的成分违反了汉语介词不得悬空的限制,因此不合语法。",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "The existence of this null element violates the restriction in Chinese where prepositions cannot be stranded; thus, it is ungrammatical.",
          "raw_tags": [
            "MSC",
            "Traditional Chinese"
          ],
          "ref": "2004, 邓思颖 [Sze-Wing Tang], “从南雄珠玑方言看被动句 [Structures of Passives as Illustrated by Zhuji Dialect Spoken in Nanxiong, Northern Guangdong Province]”, in 《方言》, number 2, page 112:",
          "roman": "Cúnzài zhège kōng de chéngfèn wéifǎnle Hànyǔ jiècí bùdé xuánkōng de xiànzhì, yīncǐ bù hé yǔfǎ.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "存在這個空的成分違反了漢語介詞不得懸空的限制,因此不合語法。",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to strand"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "grammar",
          "grammar"
        ],
        [
          "strand",
          "strand"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(grammar) to strand"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "grammar",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xuánkōng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄒㄩㄢˊ ㄎㄨㄥ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "jyun⁴ hung¹"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "hiang⁵ kong¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xuánkōng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "syuánkong"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hsüan²-kʻung¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "sywán-kūng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "shyuankong"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "сюанькун"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "sjuanʹkun"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɕy̯ɛn³⁵ kʰʊŋ⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "yùhn hūng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "jyn⁴ hung¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "yun⁴ hung¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/jyːn²¹ hʊŋ⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Peng'im",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hiang⁵ kong¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "POJ",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hiâng khong"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hiaŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ kʰoŋ³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Teochew"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɕy̯ɛn³⁵ kʰʊŋ⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/jyːn²¹ hʊŋ⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hiaŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ kʰoŋ³³/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "懸空"
}

Download raw JSONL data for 懸空 meaning in Chinese (4.2kB)

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