空: kanji meaning and names
Meanings, readings and the names that use it.
Kanji facts
- Meaning
- empty, sky, void, vacant, vacuum
- On readings (katakana)
- クウ
- Kun readings (hiragana)
- そら、あ.く、あ.き、あ.ける、から、す.く、す.かす、むな.しい
- Readings used in names (nanori)
- うつ、き、く
- Strokes
- 8
- Grade
- 1: kyōiku kanji, taught in elementary school year 1
- Newspaper frequency rank
- 304 of the 2,500 kanji most used in newspapers
- Korean reading (hangul)
- 공
In kun readings a dot separates the stem from the ending that is written in hiragana after the kanji (ひと.つ), and a hyphen marks a prefix or a suffix (ひと-).
Names that use 空
These names have a written form that contains this kanji.