空頭

See also: 空头

Chinese

		emptied; leisure; air emptied; leisure; air; sky; empty; in vain	head; (noun suffix)
trad. (空頭)		空	頭
simp. (空头)		空	头

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kōngtóu, kòngtóu

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄥ ㄊㄡˊ, ㄎㄨㄥˋ ㄊㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hung¹ tau⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khang-thâu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland, variant in Taiwan)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kōngtóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄥ ㄊㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kongtóu
    • Wade–Giles: kʻung¹-tʻou²
    • Yale: kūng-tóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kongtour
    • Palladius: кунтоу (kuntou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰʊŋ⁵⁵ tʰoʊ̯³⁵/
    • Homophones:

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  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kòngtóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄥˋ ㄊㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kòngtóu
    • Wade–Giles: kʻung⁴-tʻou²
    • Yale: kùng-tóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: konqtour
    • Palladius: кунтоу (kuntou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰʊŋ⁵¹ tʰoʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hung¹ tau⁴
    • Yale: hūng tàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hung¹ tau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: hung¹ teo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hʊŋ⁵⁵ tʰɐu̯²¹/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 空投 空頭 / 空头

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khang-thâu
    • Tâi-lô: khang-thâu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qangtaau
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² tʰau²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰaŋ³³ tʰau²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² tʰau¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰaŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰau²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰaŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰau²³/

Adjective

空頭

1. nominal; phony

   • 否則你的勞動就沒有對象，你就只能做魯迅在他的遺囑裡所諄諄囑咐他的兒子萬不可做的那種空頭文學家，或空頭藝術家。 [MSC, trad.]
     否则你的劳动就没有对象，你就只能做鲁迅在他的遗嘱里所谆谆嘱咐他的儿子万不可做的那种空头文学家，或空头艺术家。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1942, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《在延安文藝座談會上的講話》 (Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Fǒuzé nǐ de láodòng jiù méiyǒu duìxiàng, nǐ jiù zhǐ néng zuò Lǔ Xùn zài tā de yízhǔ lǐ suǒ zhūnzhūn zhǔfù tā de érzi wàn bùkě zuò de nà zhǒng kōngtóu wénxuéjiā, huò kōngtóu yìshùjiā. [Pinyin]

     Otherwise, you will have nothing to work with and you will be nothing but a phoney writer or artist, the kind that Lu Hsun in his will so earnestly cautioned his son never to become.

Noun

空頭

1. (stock exchange) bear, shorts

   Antonym: 多頭 / 多头 (duōtóu)

2. (Hokkien) thing; matter; affair (bad)
3. (Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien) illicit affair (of a couple)

Derived terms

• 做空 (zuòkōng)