- lit. the occupants have gone and the place is now empty (idiom)
- fig. (of a dwelling) empty; deserted
Characters
- 人 (人): person; people; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- 去 (去): to go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last; just passed; to send; to remove; to get rid of; to reduce; to be apart from in space or time; to die (euphemism); to play (a part); (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth; (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker); (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
- 楼 (樓): surname Lou
- 空 (空): empty; air; sky; in vain
Resources
- Wiktionary: 人去楼空
- MDBG: 人去楼空
- Examples with 人去楼空 on Tatoeba
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