虚

Meaning

虚 centers on the absence of substance: a void, emptiness, or hollowness. This extends naturally to cracks and fissures as empty spaces, unpreparedness as a lack of readiness, and untruth as a statement empty of reality.

• 虚しいむなしい
  N1

  empty; void; vacant

• 虚偽きょぎ

  falsehood; untruth; lie; misinformation

• 謙虚けんきょ
  N2

  modest; humble

• 虚うろ

  hollow; cavity; hole

• 虚きょ

  unpreparedness

• 虚無きょむ
  N1

  nihility; nothingness

• 虚構きょこう
  N1

  fiction; fabrication; concoction

• 空虚くうきょ
  N1

  emptiness; hollowness; vacancy; void

• 虚言きょげん

  falsehood; lie

• 虚ろうつろ
  N1

  cavity; hollow; void

• 虚栄きょえい

  vanity; vainglory

• 虚空こくう

  empty space; empty sky

• 虚弱きょじゃく

  feebleness; weakness; imbecility

• 虚像きょぞう

  virtual image

• 虚勢きょせい

  bluff; false show of power; bold front

• 虚数きょすう

  imaginary number

• 虚飾きょしょく

  ostentation; show; affectation

• 虚脱きょだつ

  lethargy; despondency; mental numbness

• 虚けうつけ

  absentmindedness; dreaminess; carelessness

• 虚実きょじつ

  falsehood and truth; fiction and fact

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