空き

Japanese
Kanji in this term
空
あ
Grade: 1
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
明き
開き
アキ

Pronunciation

Noun

空(あ)き • (aki) 

  1. room; space
  2. a gap
  3. unused time
  4. a vacancy
  5. (typography) whitespace before or after a character, especially a punctuation mark, such as the space after 。 、 」 』 ） etc. or before 「 『 （ etc., used for monospace typesettings (often spelled in katakana as アキ)
    二(に)分(ぶ)アキ
    nibu aki
    whitespace equal to half an em
    四(し)分(ぶ)アキ
    shibu aki
    whitespace equal to 1/4 of an em
    二(に)分(ぶ)四(し)分(ぶ)アキ
    nibu shibu aki
    whitespace equal to 3/4 of an em

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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