HSK 6 · Ideas

空白 kòngbái “blank” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 空白 means

  1. blank
  2. blank space
  3. gap

How to say 空白

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale空kòng4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale白bái2nd tone, rising

空白 in a sentence

  1. 我的脑一片空白。

    Wǒ de nǎo yí piàn kòngbái.

    My mind went blank.

    Sentence #9501483 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 空白 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 空 (kōng) with each of its parts in a different colour
空kòngto empty
  • 穴cave · xuéMeaning part
  • 工work · gōngSound part

穴 hints at the meaning (cave); 工 (gōng) hints at the sound. Compare it with kòng.

The character 白 (bái) drawn as one shape
白báiwhite

白 is a single shape of 5 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 空白

空 8 strokes · 白 5 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

空白 (kòngbái) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 空白 (kòngbái). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 空白

Words with 空

空调kōngtiáo · air conditioning空kōng · empty填空tiánkòng · to fill in the blanks (on a form or test)空气kōngqì · air空闲kòngxián · free time天空tiānkōng · sky空间kōngjiān · space空想kōngxiǎng · fantasy空洞kōngdòng · empty空虚kōngxū · empty

Words with 白

白天báitiān · daytime白bái · white白色báisè · white明白míngbai · clear苍白cāngbái · pale坦白tǎnbái · frank蛋白质dànbáizhì · protein

More words: Ideas & Concepts

局势júshì · situation (esp. political or military)举世瞩目jǔshìzhǔmù · to attract worldwide attention局限júxiàn · to limit考验kǎoyàn · to test框架kuàngjià · frame苦尽甘来kǔjìngānlái · after hardship comes happiness来历láilì · origin来源láiyuán · source

FAQs

空白 (kòngbái) means “blank” or “blank space”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it kòngbái: kòng with a 4th tone, then bái with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 空白 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type kongbai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 空白 from the suggestions. Typing kongbai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
空白 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.