Kanji1 / 11
虚 kanji
void, emptiness, unpreparedness, crack, fissure, untruth
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
キョコ
Kun readings
むなしいうつろ
Variant forms
虗虛Words with 虚
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —虚伝false rumor; false rumour
- —虚名false reputation; empty title; empty name
- —虚位nominal rank
- —虚実falsehood and truth; fiction and fact
- —虚根imaginary root
- —虚辞falsehood; syntactic expletive
- —虚業risky business
- —虚説groundless rumor; groundless rumour
- —虚誕exaggerated talk
- —虚聞false rumor; false rumour; false reputation
- —太虚the sky; the heavens; Great Void (in ancient Chinese philosophy, the primordial substance that gives rise to qi)
- —虚式imaginary expression
- —虚学the soft sciences (social science, humanities, etc.)
- —盈虚waxing and waning (of the moon); phase; rising and falling (of fortune)
- —虚静calm and free of ambition or care
- —虚舟empty boat
- —虚語lie; falsehood
- —虚血ischemia; ischaemia
- —虚部imaginary part (of complex number)
- —腎虚(male) emaciation due to sexual overindulgence