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空落落 (kōng luò luò): meaning and stroke order

空落落 (kōng luò luò) means empty, desolate.

空落落

Simplified
空落落
Traditional
空落落 (same form)
Pinyin
kōng luò luò

Stroke order of 空落落

空

  • kōng empty; air
  • kòng to empty; vacant
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

落

  • là to leave out; to be missing
  • lào colloquial reading for 落[luo4] in certain compounds
  • luò to fall or drop; (of the sun) to set
  • 12 strokes

Stroke by stroke

落

  • là to leave out; to be missing
  • lào colloquial reading for 落[luo4] in certain compounds
  • luò to fall or drop; (of the sun) to set
  • 12 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 空落落

  1. kōng luò luò
    • empty
    • desolate

Radicals of the characters

空
Radical 穴 (Kangxi radical 116) · 8 strokes · 穴 on top, 工 below
落
Radical 艸 (Kangxi radical 140) · 12 strokes · 艹 on top, 洛 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

空落落 in our stories

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  • 刚来的时候，冬天下午三点天就黑了，她常常一个人坐在窗前，看着雪一点点把路灯埋起来，心里空落落的。

    gāng lái de shíhou dōngtiān xiàwǔ sān diǎn tiān jiù hēi le tā chángcháng yí gè rén zuò zài chuāngqián kàn zhe xuě yìdiǎndiǎn bǎ lùdēng mái qǐlai xīnli kōngluòluò de

    When she first arrived, winter darkness fell at three in the afternoon. She would often sit alone at the window, watching the snow slowly bury the street lamps, feeling hollow inside.

    From the story Two homes HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 空落落

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).