空穴来风未必无因 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 空穴來風未必無因 kòngxuéláifēngwèibìwúyīn ㄎㄨㄥˋ ㄒㄩㄝˊ ㄌㄞˊ ㄈㄥ ㄨㄟˋ ㄅㄧˋ ㄨˊ ㄧㄣ wind does not come from an empty cave without reason there's no smoke without fire (idiom) Character by character 空(kòng)empty 穴(xué)cave 来(lái)come 风(fēng)wind 未(wèi)not yet 必(bì)certainly 无(wú)not to have 因(yīn)cause A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0