How to say "vacancy" in Japanese

• 空室くうしつCommon
  nounA vacancy in the hotel or rental sense: an unoccupied room. This is the word you want when asking whether a hotel or apartment has any rooms available.
  彼かれは４１８号室ごうしつというとても狭せまい部屋へやが空室くうしつだったことを思い出おもいだしました。↗

  He remembered that Room 418, a very small room, was empty.
• 空虚くうきょCommon
  noun, na-adjectiveThe figurative sense of emptiness, hollowness, or void — a feeling of inner vacancy rather than a literal open space. It is not used for available rooms or job openings.
  神かみに向むかって話はなしかけてみてもそこにあるのは空虚くうきょのみ。↗

  I talk to God but the sky is empty.
• 欠けつCommon
  nounLack, deficiency, or a vacancy in a formal, often numeric sense, as in counting unfilled seats or positions. Outside such formal expressions it is rarely the everyday word for a vacancy.
• 欠員けついんCommon
  nounA vacancy in staffing: an unfilled position or opening on a team, committee, or roster. Use this when a job or post is vacant because there are not enough people.
• 空位くういCommon
  nounA vacant post or vacancy in the sense of a position left open, such as an office or seat awaiting an appointee. Similar to 欠員 but focuses on the unfilled post itself.

Choose by domain: 空室 for empty rooms, 欠員 or 空位 for unfilled posts, 欠 for a vacancy in a formal count, and 空虚 for the figurative sense of emptiness or hollowness.

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• 空室くうしつvacant room
• 空虚くうきょemptiness
• 欠けつlack
• 欠員けついんvacant position
• 空位くういvacant post
• 空き間あきまvacancy
• 空き部屋あきべやavailable room (hotel)
• 空き室あきしつvacant room
• 空きあきvacancy
• 空席くうせきvacancy
• 空孔くうこう(lattice) vacancy
• 穴あなgap (left by a missing employee, team member, etc.)