虚 (crack, emptiness, fissure, unpreparedness, untruth, void) - Kanji Codex

虚

crack, emptiness, fissure, unpreparedness, untruth, void

Readings

On'yomi (音読み)

キョコ

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

うつ.ろむな.しい

Stroke Order

11 / 11

Information

Grade:8

Strokes:11

JLPT:1

Frequency:1454

Vocabulary

キョ

Word	Reading	Meaning
虚偽	キョギ	falsehood; untruth; lie; misinformation; fallacy
虚構	キョコウ	fiction; fabrication; concoction
虚無	キョム	nihility; nothingness
空虚	クウキョ	emptiness; hollowness; vacancy; void; inanity; pointlessness; meaninglessness
謙虚	ケンキョ	modest; humble

コ

Word	Reading	Meaning
虚偽	コギ	falsehood; untruth; lie; misinformation; fallacy
虚空	コクウ	empty space; empty sky
虚空蔵	コクウゾウ	Akasagarbha (bodhisattva); the Receptacle of Void
虚無僧	コムソウ	begging Zen priest of the Fuke sect (wearing a sedge hood and playing a shakuhachi flute)
虚妄	コモウ	falsehood; untruth; lie

Other

Word	Reading	Meaning
虚	から	emptiness; being empty; not carrying anything; unburdened; empty-handed; dishonoured (bill, promise, etc.); false; no-show (reservation); put-on (cheeriness, courage, etc.); empty (compliments); insincere
虚	そら	sky; the air; the heavens; weather; far-off place; distant place; state of mind; feeling; (from) memory; (by) heart; falsehood; lie; somehow; vaguely; fake
虚しい	むなしい	empty; void; vacant; vain; fruitless; futile; ineffective; lifeless
虚々実々	きょきょじつじつ	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
虚しく	むなしく	in vain; to no purpose; fruitlessly

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