人去楼空 (人去樓空)
rén qù lóu kōng
Pinyin
Definition
人去楼空 (人去樓空)
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- the people are gone and the place is empty (idiom)
- the sight of a deserted place brings old friends to mind
- the place is deserted
- the birds have flown
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 life (one's time on earth)
- 1 other people
- 2 others
- 3 other person
- 1 to go
- 2 to go to (a place)
- 3 (of a time etc) last
- 4 just passed
- 5 to send
- 6 to remove
- 7 to get rid of
- 8 to reduce
- 9 to be apart from in space or time
- 10 to die (euphemism)
- 11 to play (a part)
- 12 (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth
- 13 (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker)
- 14 (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
- 1 woman
Idioms (20)
一人得道,鸡犬升天
- 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
- 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
- 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
- 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一纸空文
- 1 a worthless piece of paper (idiom)
一鸣惊人
- 1 to amaze the world with a single brilliant feat (idiom); an overnight celebrity
三人成虎
- 1 three men talking makes a tiger (idiom); repeated rumor becomes a fact
三人行,必有我师
- 1 lit. if three walk together, one can be my teacher (idiom, from the Analects of Confucius)
- 2 you have sth to learn from everyone