しんくう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of しんくう – see the following entry.
【真空】
[adjective] (rare) vacant, empty
[noun] [from 1876] (physics) vacuum: a region of space that contains no matter, a void
[noun] [from 1907] (figurative) a blank, an empty slate
[noun] [from 751] (Buddhism) sunyata: void, emptiness, non-existence; also, in the early Buddhist schools, enlightenment, nirvana
(This term, しんくう (shinkū), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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