くう

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See also: ぐう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of くう – see the following entries.
【食う】
to put something in one's mouth
(men's speech, vulgar) to eat, to devour
to make a living, to live; to survive
to tease, to taunt, to make light of, to make fun of; to torment
to bite, to sting (of an insect, usually used in the passive)
Alternative spelling
喰う
【空】1
empty air
meaninglessness
(Buddhism) sunyata: emptiness, vacuity, awareness, openness, thusness
(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.)
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