false; empty or unoccupied; (of health) weak

Character data

Radical ⾌ (141.6)
Strokes 12
SIMPLIFIED

Definitions

虛 xū
  1. 1. false
  2. 2. empty or unoccupied
  3. 3. (of health) weak
  4. 4. virtual
  5. 5. humble or modest
  6. 6. in vain
  7. 7. emptiness
  8. 8. void
  9. 9. abstract theory or guiding principles
  10. 10. diffident or timid

Words containing 虛

Word Meaning
vanity
vanity
to make up; fabrication; fictional
fiction
traditional Chinese age count
excess of internal heat due to poor general condition (TCM)
nothingness
nihilism
null hypothesis (statistics)
unreal; illusory; imaginary
to miss the target (with a bullet or an arrow)
empty; void; hollow
Akasagarbha Bodhisattva
virtual particle
dashed line; dotted line; (math.) imaginary line
blank square for missing character
to collapse (from dehydration or loss of blood)
empty wrist (method of painting)
to feign civility (idiom)
hard to tell if it's real or sham
empty words; false words
tricky and hypocritical
(linguistics) function word
to boast; to brag; boastful
false