虚
void; emptiness; unpreparedness; crack; fissure; untruth
11 strokes. Jōyō kanji, taught in secondary school. Newspaper frequency rank 1454.
Readings
- キョ (on reading): 虚無 (きょむ) nihility; 虚偽 (きょぎ) falsehood
- むなしい (kun reading): 虚しい (むなしい) empty; 努力も虚しく (どりょくもむなしく) after efforts in vain
- コ (on reading): 虚空 (こくう) empty space; 虚空蔵菩薩 (こくうぞうぼさつ) Akasagarbha (bodhisattva)
- うつろ (kun reading): 虚ろ (うつろ) cavity; 木の虚ろ (きのうつろ) hollow in a tree
Components
Kanji containing 虚
Words using 虚
- 虚無 (きょむ) nihility
- 虚偽 (きょぎ) falsehood
- 謙虚 (けんきょ) modest
- 虚 (きょ) unpreparedness
- 虚構 (きょこう) fiction
- 虚しい (むなしい) empty
- 努力も虚しく (どりょくもむなしく) after efforts in vain
- 己を虚しゅうする (おのれをむなしゅうする) to cast aside one's prejudices
- 虚空 (こくう) empty space
- 虚空蔵菩薩 (こくうぞうぼさつ) Akasagarbha (bodhisattva)
- 虚無僧 (こむそう) begging Zen priest of the Fuke sect (wearing a sedge hood and playing a shakuhachi flute)
- 虚仮 (こけ) folly
- 虚空蔵 (こくうぞう) Akasagarbha (bodhisattva)
- 虚ろ (うつろ) cavity
- 木の虚ろ (きのうつろ) hollow in a tree
- 虚舟 (うつろぶね) utsuro-bune
92 words in all.