くう

See also: ぐう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of くう – see the following entries.

【食う】 [verb] to put something in one's mouth [verb] (men's speech, vulgar) to eat, to devour [verb] to make a living, to live; to survive [verb] to tease, to taunt, to make light of, to make fun of; to torment [verb] to bite, to sting (of an insect, usually used in the passive) Alternative spelling 喰う

【空】1 [noun] empty air [noun] meaninglessness [noun] (Buddhism) sunyata: emptiness, vacuity, awareness, openness, thusness [noun] (Buddhism) void: one of the 五大 (godai, literally “great five”) and the highest of the five elements

(This term, くう (kū), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.) For a list of all kanji read as くう, see Category:Japanese kanji read as くう.)