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Chinese
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hang; suspend
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emptied; leisure; air emptied; leisure; air; sky; empty; in vain |
| trad. (懸空)
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懸
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空
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| simp. (悬空)
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悬
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空
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Pronunciation
Verb
懸空
- (literal) to suspend in the air
- (figurative) to hang in the balance
- (of a position, job, etc.) to be vacant
- (grammar) to strand
- 介詞懸空／介词悬空 ― jiècí xuánkōng ― preposition stranding
2004, 邓思颖 [Sze-Wing Tang], “从南雄珠玑方言看被动句 [Structures of Passives as Illustrated by Zhuji Dialect Spoken in Nanxiong, Northern Guangdong Province]”, in 《方言》, number 2, page 112:
存在这个空的成分违反了汉语介词不得悬空的限制，因此不合语法。 [MSC, simp.]
存在這個空的成分違反了漢語介詞不得懸空的限制，因此不合語法。 [MSC, trad.]- Cúnzài zhège kōng de chéngfèn wéifǎnle Hànyǔ jiècí bùdé xuánkōng de xiànzhì, yīncǐ bù hé yǔfǎ.
- The existence of this null element violates the restriction in Chinese where prepositions cannot be stranded; thus, it is ungrammatical.
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