买空卖空 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 買空賣空 mǎikōngmàikōng ㄇㄞˇ ㄎㄨㄥ ㄇㄞˋ ㄎㄨㄥ to speculate to play the market to sell hot air fig. to swindle people by posing as a reputable operator Character by character 买(mǎi)buy 空(kōng)empty 卖(mài)sell 空(kōng)empty A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0