空气污染
kōng qì wū rǎn
Pinyin

Definition

空气污染
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kōng qì wū rǎn
  1. air pollution

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

夜空
yè kōng
  1. 1 night sky
天空
tiān kōng
  1. 1 sky
感染
gǎn rǎn
  1. 1 infection
  2. 2 to infect
  3. 3 to influence
星空
xīng kōng
  1. 1 starry sky
  2. 2 the heavens
时空
shí kōng
  1. 1 time and place
  2. 2 world of a particular locale and era
  3. 3 (physics) space-time
有空
yǒu kòng
  1. 1 to have time (to do sth)
污染
wū rǎn
  1. 1 pollution
  2. 2 contamination
  3. 3 CL:個|个[gè]
空
kōng
  1. 1 empty
  2. 2 air
  3. 3 sky
  4. 4 in vain
空气
kōng qì
  1. 1 air
  2. 2 atmosphere
空虚
kōng xū
  1. 1 hollow
  2. 2 emptiness
  3. 3 meaningless
空调
kōng tiáo
  1. 1 air conditioning
  2. 2 air conditioner (including units that have a heating mode)
  3. 3 CL:臺|台[tái]
空间
kōng jiān
  1. 1 space
  2. 2 room
  3. 3 (fig.) scope
  4. 4 leeway
  5. 5 (astronomy) outer space
  6. 6 (physics, math.) space
航空
háng kōng
  1. 1 aviation
上空
shàng kōng
  1. 1 overhead
  2. 2 in the sky
人去楼空
rén qù lóu kōng
  1. 1 the people are gone and the place is empty (idiom)
  2. 2 the sight of a deserted place brings old friends to mind
  3. 3 the place is deserted
  4. 4 the birds have flown
传染
chuán rǎn
  1. 1 to infect
  2. 2 contagious
传染病
chuán rǎn bìng
  1. 1 infectious disease
  2. 2 contagious disease
  3. 3 pestilence
半空
bàn kōng
  1. 1 midair
填空
tián kòng
  1. 1 to fill a job vacancy
  2. 2 to fill in a blank (e.g. on questionnaire or exam paper)
天马行空
tiān mǎ xíng kōng
  1. 1 like a heavenly steed, soaring across the skies (idiom)
  2. 2 (of writing, calligraphy etc) bold and imaginative
  3. 3 unconstrained in style

Idioms (20)

一尘不染
yī chén bù rǎn
  1. 1 untainted by even a speck of dust (idiom); selfless and incorruptible
  2. 2 spotless
一纸空文
yī zhǐ kōng wén
  1. 1 a worthless piece of paper (idiom)
人去楼空
rén qù lóu kōng
  1. 1 the people are gone and the place is empty (idiom)
  2. 2 the sight of a deserted place brings old friends to mind
  3. 3 the place is deserted
  4. 4 the birds have flown
两手空空
liǎng shǒu kōng kōng
  1. 1 empty-handed (idiom); fig. not receiving anything
出淤泥而不染
chū yū ní ér bù rǎn
  1. 1 lit. to grow out of the mud unsullied (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to be principled and incorruptible
劈空扳害
pī kōng bān hài
  1. 1 damaged by groundless slander (idiom)
司空见惯
sī kōng jiàn guàn
  1. 1 a common occurrence (idiom)
同流合污
tóng liú hé wū
  1. 1 to wallow in the mire with sb (idiom); to follow the bad example of others
唱空城计
chàng kōng chéng jì
  1. 1 lit. to sing “The Empty City Stratagem” (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to put up a bluff to conceal one's weakness
  3. 3 (jocularly) (of a place etc) to be empty
  4. 4 (of one's stomach) to be rumbling
四大皆空
sì dà jiē kōng
  1. 1 lit. the four elements are vanity (idiom)
  2. 2 this world is an illusion
坐吃山空
zuò chī shān kōng
  1. 1 lit. just sitting and eating, one can deplete even a mountain of wealth (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to spend one's money without generating any income
天低吴楚，眼空无物
tiān dī Wú Chǔ , yǎn kōng wú wù
  1. 1 the sky hangs low over the Yangtze, empty as far as the eye can see (idiom); nothing to see to the broad horizon
天马行空
tiān mǎ xíng kōng
  1. 1 like a heavenly steed, soaring across the skies (idiom)
  2. 2 (of writing, calligraphy etc) bold and imaginative
  3. 3 unconstrained in style
奸官污吏
jiān guān wū lì
  1. 1 traitor minister and corrupt official (idiom); abuse and corruption
凭空捏造
píng kōng niē zào
  1. 1 fabrication relying on nothing (idiom); frame-up
挖空心思
wā kōng xīn si
  1. 1 to dig for thoughts (idiom); to search everything for an answer
  2. 2 to rack one's brains
染指
rǎn zhǐ
  1. 1 to dip a finger (idiom); fig. to get one's finger in the pie
  2. 2 to get a share of the action
  3. 3 abbr. for 染指於鼎|染指于鼎
染指垂涎
rǎn zhǐ chuí xián
  1. 1 lit. dirty finger, mouth watering (idiom); fig. greedy to seize sth
染指于鼎
rǎn zhǐ yú dǐng
  1. 1 lit. dip one's finger in the tripod (idiom); fig. to get one's finger in the pie
  2. 2 to get a share of the action
沾染世俗
zhān rǎn shì sú
  1. 1 to be corrupted by the ways of the world (idiom)

Sample Sentences

申办冬奥会，北京的劣势是空气污染。
shēnbàn dōngàohuì ，Běijīng de lièshì shì kōngqì wūrǎn 。
In applying to hold the Winter Olympics, Beijing's disadvantage is air pollution.
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I'm still not optimistic about the prospects for environmental protection. Just doing a few little things is not nearly enough. Everywhere you look are erosion, water shortages, and air pollution. If we don't start paying more attention, after a few more years, people will need masks and oxygen bottles to survive. What a huge tragedy.
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