虚
虚 — Void
void, emptiness, unpreparedness, crack, fissure, untruth
On’yomiキョ (kyo)
On’yomiコ (ko)
Kun’yomiむなしい (munashii)
Kun’yomiうつろ (utsuro)
Stroke order (11 strokes)
Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).
Common words using 虚
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 虚偽 | きょぎ kyogi | falsehood; untruth; lie |
| 謙虚 | けんきょ kenkyo | modest; humble |
| 虚構 | きょこう kyokou | fiction; fabrication; concoction |
| 虚無 | きょむ kyomu | nihility; nothingness |
| 虚しい | むなしい munashii | empty; void; vacant |
| 空虚 | くうきょ kuukyo | emptiness; hollowness; vacancy |
Study notes
虚 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 11 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1454 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).
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