空洞無物

Chinese

		cavity; hole; void cavity; hole; void; hollow; empty	to have nothing; to be devoid of content; to be empty
trad. (空洞無物)		空洞	無物
simp. (空洞无物)		空洞	无物

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kōngdòngwúwù

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄥ ㄉㄨㄥˋ ㄨˊ ㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hung¹ dung⁶ mou⁴ mat⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kōngdòngwúwù
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄥ ㄉㄨㄥˋ ㄨˊ ㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kongdòngwúwù
    • Wade–Giles: kʻung¹-tung⁴-wu²-wu⁴
    • Yale: kūng-dùng-wú-wù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kongdonqwuwuh
    • Palladius: кундунъуу (kundunʺuu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰʊŋ⁵⁵ tʊŋ⁵¹ u³⁵ u⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hung¹ dung⁶ mou⁴ mat⁶
    • Yale: hūng duhng mòuh maht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hung¹ dung⁶ mou⁴ mat⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hung¹ dung⁶ mou⁴ med⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hʊŋ⁵⁵ tʊŋ²² mou̯²¹ mɐt̚²/

Idiom

空洞無物

1. utter lack of substance; devoid of content

   • 我們的教條主義者違背列寧的指示，從來不用腦筋具體地分析任何事物，做起文章或演說來，總是空洞無物的八股調，在我們黨內造成了一種極壞的作風。 [MSC, trad.]
     我们的教条主义者违背列宁的指示，从来不用脑筋具体地分析任何事物，做起文章或演说来，总是空洞无物的八股调，在我们党内造成了一种极坏的作风。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1937, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《矛盾論》 (On Contradiction), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Wǒmen de jiàotiáozhǔyìzhě wéibèi Lièníng de zhǐshì, cónglái bù yòng nǎojīn jùtǐ de fēnxī rènhé shìwù, zuòqǐ wénzhāng huò yǎnshuō lai, zǒngshì kōngdòngwúwù de bāgǔdiào, zài wǒmen Dǎng nèi zàochéng le yī zhǒng jí huài de zuòfēng. [Pinyin]

     Our dogmatists have violated Lenin's teachings; they never use their brains to analyse anything concretely, and in their writings and speeches they always use stereotypes devoid of content, thereby creating a very bad style of work in our Party.