0080 - 空[공] - 비다 - empty, hollow, bare, deserted

The Story [이야기] :

• This is a pictophonetic character.  The cave 穴 suggests the meaning, while 工[공] suggests the sound.  There is a cave 穴 which became the dwelling place 宀 of eight 八 tigers.
• There was once a myth about a cave 穴 that contains a magical ball with four(4) stars on it.  The artisans 工 near the cave heard about it and dug deep into the cave, but the cave was empty.

Stroke Order [획순] :

New Vocabulary [새로운 단어] :

공 [空] - zero; cipher; naught; nothing; emptiness; vacancy; free of charge
공짜 [空짜] - a thing got for nothing; free charge; gratuitousness
공기 [空氣] - air; atmosphere
공군 [空軍] - the air force; a flying corps
공백 [空白] - a blank; blank space; a gap; vacuum; void
공중 [空中] - the air; the sky; space
상공 [上空] - the upper air; the skies (of Seoul); high in the air [sky]
시공 [時空] - space time
공간 [空間] - space; room; the infinite
공가 [空家] - an empty [a vacant, an unoccupied] house; a deserted house
공목 [空木] - furniture; filling material; lead
공일 [空日] - Sunday; a holiday; a day off
공실 [空室] - a vacant room; an unoccupied room[chamber]

 

Example Sentences [예문] :

음속은 空氣 中에서와 水中에서 다르다.
The velocity of sound in air and water is different.

가상 空間에는 時間과 空間의 장벽이 없다.
There are no barriers of time and space in cyberspace.