Chinese-English Dictionary

Dictionary entries for 人去楼空
{ rén lóu kōng }
people are gone, the tower is empty; cf Yellow Crane Tower 黄鹤楼, Tang poem by Cui Hao 崔顥|崔颢, with theme the past will never return nostalgia for old friends

rén
man person people CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]

to go to leave to remove fourth tone of putonghua
lóu
house with more than 1 story storied building floor CL:層|层[ceng2],座[zuo4],棟|栋[dong4]
kōng
air sky empty free time in vain
kòng
emptied leisure




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