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.)