Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji

虚: void, emptiness

Also: unpreparedness, crack, fissure, untruth

JLPT N111 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
  • 虍(meaning · sound)
  • 业(meaning)

业 carries the meaning · 虍 carries meaning and sound

11 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Two readings, and the words that use each

キョkyo · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 虚偽きょぎfalsehood; untruth; lie
  • 謙虚けんきょmodest; humble
  • 虚構きょこうfiction; fabrication; concoction
  • 虚無きょむnihility; nothingness
  • 空虚くうきょemptiness; hollowness; vacancy
  • 虚栄心きょえいしんvanity

むなしいmunashii · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 虚しいむなしいempty; void; vacant

Also read コ, うつろ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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虍

Also built on 虍

虚 takes the 虍 family's reading, コ (ko).

业

Also built on 业

虚 gives its sound to

Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read キョ

10 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read コ

27 kanji share this on'yomiAll 27
In ChineseSimplified, as in Japanese · traditional 虛 · xū

Japan uses the same simplified form as mainland China, 虚. Taiwan and Hong Kong write 虛.

Simplified
虚 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
虛 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin xū most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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