镂空 (鏤空)
lòu kōng
Pinyin

Definition

镂空 (鏤空)
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lòu kōng
  1. openwork
  2. fretwork

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

天空
tiān kōng
  1. 1 sky
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)
空
kōng
  1. 1 empty
  2. 2 air
  3. 3 sky
  4. 4 in vain

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
两手空空
liǎng shǒu kōng kōng
  1. 1 empty-handed (idiom); fig. not receiving anything
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)

Sample Sentences

明清时期，皇家宫殿房间内出现了可移动的冷源，即贮放冰块的柜子，上面镂空，作为冷气出孔，中部空间还可储存食物，如西瓜、冷饮等。
MíngQīng shíqī ，huángjiā gōngdiàn fángjiān nèi chūxiàn le kě yídòng de lěngyuán ，jí zhùfàng bīngkuài de guìzi ，shàngmiàn lòukōng ，zuòwéi lěngqì chūkǒng ，zhōngbù kōngjiān hái kě chǔcún shíwù ，rú xīguā 、lěngyǐn děng 。
In the Ming and Qing dynasty, rooms in the royal palace placed ice cubes in cabinets which were hollow on the top to let the cool air flow. The space in the middle of the cabinets were used to store food such as watermelons and cold beverages etc.
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