空城計

Chinese

		abandoned city; empty city	to calculate; to compute; to count to calculate; to compute; to count; reckon; ruse; to plan
trad. (空城計)		空城	計
simp. (空城计)		空城	计

Etymology

Stratagem #32 in the Thirty-Six Stratagems.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kōngchéngjì

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄥ ㄔㄥˊ ㄐㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hung¹ sing⁴ gai³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khang-siâⁿ-kè / khong-chhîn-kiè

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kōngchéngjì
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄥ ㄔㄥˊ ㄐㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kongchéngjì
    • Wade–Giles: kʻung¹-chʻêng²-chi⁴
    • Yale: kūng-chéng-jì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kongcherngjih
    • Palladius: кунчэнцзи (kunčɛnczi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰʊŋ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ³⁵ t͡ɕi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hung¹ sing⁴ gai³
    • Yale: hūng sìhng gai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hung¹ sing⁴ gai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: hung¹ xing⁴ gei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hʊŋ⁵⁵ sɪŋ²¹ kɐi̯³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khang-siâⁿ-kè
    • Tâi-lô: khang-siânn-kè
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qangsvia'kex
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰaŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ siã²⁴⁻¹¹ ke¹¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² siã¹³⁻²² ke²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰaŋ³³ siã²⁴⁻²² ke⁴¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰaŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ siã²³⁻³³ ke²¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² siã²⁴⁻²² ke²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Longyan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khong-chhîn-kiè
    • Tâi-lô: khong-tshîn-kiè
    • IPA (Longyan): /kʰoŋ³³⁴ t͡sʰin¹¹ kie²¹³/

Noun

空城計

1. Empty Fort Strategy (strategy to deceive the enemy into thinking that an empty location is full of traps and ambushes)
2. (figurative) hungry stomach

Derived terms

• 唱空城計 / 唱空城计 (chàng kōngchéngjì)
• 演空城計 / 演空城计

 

References

• 郭启熹 [Guo, Qixi], editor (2016), “空城计”, in 龙岩方言词典 LONGYAN FANGYAN CIDIAN [Dictionary of Longyan dialect] (overall work in Min Nan and Mandarin), Xiamen: 鷺江出版社 [Lujiang Publishing House], →ISBN, page 487.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
空	城	計
くう Grade: 1	じょう Grade: 4	けい Grade: 2
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kɯ̟ːʑo̞ːke̞ː]

Noun

空(くう)城(じょう)計(けい) • (kūjōkei) 

1. Empty Fort Strategy (strategy to deceive the enemy into thinking that an empty location is full of traps and ambushes)

Korean

Hanja in this term
空	城	計

Noun

空城計 • (gongseonggye) (hangeul 공성계)

1. hanja form^? of 공성계 (“Empty Fort Strategy”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
空	城	計

Noun

空城計

1. chữ Hán form of không thành kế (“Empty Fort Strategy”).