空腹
kōng fù
Pinyin

Definition

空腹
 - 
kōng fù
  1. an empty stomach

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

yè kōng
  1. 1 night sky
tiān kōng
  1. 1 sky
xīng kōng
  1. 1 starry sky
  2. 2 the heavens
shí kōng
  1. 1 time and place
  2. 2 world of a particular locale and era
  3. 3 (physics) space-time
yǒu kòng
  1. 1 to have time (to do sth)

Idioms (20)

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
以小人之心,度君子之腹
yǐ xiǎo rén zhī xīn , duó jūn zǐ zhī fù
  1. 1 to gauge the heart of a gentleman with one's own mean measure (idiom)
两手空空
liǎng shǒu kōng kōng
  1. 1 empty-handed (idiom); fig. not receiving anything
剖腹藏珠
pōu fù cáng zhū
  1. 1 lit. cutting one's stomach to hide a pearl (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. wasting a lot of effort on trivialities

Sample Sentences

我猜是因为你喝酒前什么都没吃,空腹喝酒容易醉。
wǒ cāi shì yīnwèi nǐ hējiǔ qián shénme dōu méi chī ,kōngfù hējiǔ róngyì zuì 。
I guess that it's because you didn't eat before drinking. If you drink on an empty stomach you're more likely to get drunk.
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什么?你不知道泡温泉以前不能吃太饱或是空腹吗?
shénme ?nǐ bù zhīdào pào wēnquán yǐqián bùnéng chī tài bǎo huòshì kōngfù ma ?
What? Didn't you know that you can't go to a hot spring if you eat too much or have an empty stomach.
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