kōng xué lái fēng

Traditional: 空穴來風

空穴来风 (kōng xué lái fēng) is a Chinese word meaning “lit. wind from an empty cave (idiom); fig. unfounded (story); baseless (claim)”.

Meanings

  1. 1lit. wind from an empty cave (idiom)
  2. 2fig. unfounded (story)
  3. 3baseless (claim)

Characters in 空穴来风

空kōng · empty穴xué · cave来lái · to come风fēng · wind

Related words

来to come起来to stand up; to get up起来(after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state回来to return; to come back出来to come out出来(after a verb, indicates coming out, completion of an action, or ability to discern or detect)过来to come over过来see 過來|过来[guo4 lai2]下来to come down从来always看来apparently进来to come in

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