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
- —一犬虚に吠ゆれば万犬実を伝うone dog barks at a shadow, and a hundred bark at the sound; it takes one person to start a rumor for the masses to tell it as the truth; gossip travels faster than the truth; when one dog barks at nothing, ten thousand dogs will pass it on as fact
- —廃虚ruins (of a building, town, etc.); remains
- —大虚the sky; the heavens; Great Void (in ancient Chinese philosophy, the primordial substance that gives rise to qi)
- —虚虚実実full of wiles and tricks; match between persons equal in shrewdness mobilizing all the tricks each can muster; shrewdly avoiding the opponent's strong points and attacking its weaknesses
- —虚をつくto catch off guard; to catch unprepared
- —虚を衝くto catch off guard; to catch unprepared
- —虚実混淆mishmash of truth and untruth; mixture of fiction and fact
- —虚心たんかいwith an open and calm mind; with no preconceived notions; without reserve; frank; candid
- —虚をつかれるto be caught off guard; to be caught unprepared
- —虚を衝かれるto be caught off guard; to be caught unprepared
- —虚虚実実の戦いmatch between persons equal in shrewdness