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Meaning of 虚

Pinyin xū

Radical

虍

Strokes

Definition

devoid of content / void / false / empty / vain

Usage

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虚 [xū] 名 1. 空: emptiness; void 例: ～无。空无。 (empty and void) 例: 空～。 (empty space) 2. 不真实的: false; sham 例: ～伪。 (falsehood) 例: ～妄。 (illusions) 3. 内心怯懦: timid; lacking confidence 例: 做贼心～。 (a thief's heart is timid) 4. 不自满: modest; self-effacing 例: ～心。 (modest heart) 例: 谦～。 (humble) 5. 抽象的: abstract 例: ～词。 (abstract terms) 6. 衰弱: weak; feeble 例: ～弱。 (weak) 例: 气～。 (weakness) 7. 星名，二十八宿之一: name of a star, one of the twenty-eight lunar mansions 8. 同“ 墟 ”，大丘: same as "墟", means a large mound 9. 同“ 圩 ”，集市: same as "圩", means market 形 1. 空虚，与“实”相对: emptiness; void; opposite of “实” (reality) 例: 虚弱。 (weak) 2. 疏松，不坚实或不结实: loose 例: 虚儾。 (too loose) 3. 稀少: rare 例: 自此贼情渐虚。 (since then, the bandit situation has become rare) 4. 虚弱: weak 例: 虚劣。 (feeble) 5. 空闲;间断: free; leisurely 例: 虚闲。 (leisurely) 6. 心慌，不踏实: wanting in self-confidence; timid 例: 虚心架子。 (an artifice of timidity) 7. 谦虚: modest; self-effacing 例: 足下虚心。 (you are modest) 8. 虚假，不真实: false; sham; nominal 例: 虚科。 (pretentious) 9. 道教语。指无欲无为的思想境界: indifferent to fame or gain 动 1. 使空出: to empty 例: 虚左，自迎。 (reserve the left for receiving someone) 2. 通“居”。居住: to reside 例: 非其里而虚之，非礼也。 (it is improper to reside outside your home) 3. 使成为废墟: to ruin 例: 虚宗庙之国也。 (ruin the country's ancestral temples) 4. 耗费: to exhaust 例: 虚其府库。 (exhaust the treasury) 副徒然，白白地: in vain 例: 好景虚设。 (favorable conditions are in vain) 例: 虚劳。 (wasted effort)

虚夸 xū kuā

to boast / to brag / boastful / exaggerative / pompous / bombastic

虚妄 xū wàng

fabricated

虚幻 xū huàn

imaginary / illusory

弄虚作假 nòng xū zuò jiǎ

to practice fraud (idiom); by trickery

故弄玄虚 gù nòng xuán xū

deliberately mystifying / to make sth unnecessarily complicated

虚弱 xū ruò

weak / in poor health

谦虚谨慎 qiān xū jǐn shèn

humility / be modest and prudent / humble and cautious

虚拟 xū nǐ

to imagine / to make up / fictitious / theoretical / hypothetical / (computing) to emulate / virtual

虚掩 xū yǎn

with the door left unlocked or unlatched

冲虚 chōng xū

Flush

虚晃一枪 xiù huàng yī qiāng

make a gesture of attacking / a make-believe thrust

虚构 xū gòu

to make up / fabrication / fictional / imaginary

虚假 xū jiǎ

false / phony / pretense

虚汗 xū hàn

abnormal sweating due to general debility

虚无飘渺 xū wú piāo miǎo

Ethereal

虚伪 xū wěi

false / hypocritical / artificial / sham

乘虚 chéng xū

to take advantage of weakness

空虚 kōng xū

hollow / emptiness / meaningless

虚无缥缈 xū wú piǎo miǎo

unreal / illusory / imaginary / vague and with nothing in it

肾虚 shèn xū

deficiency of the kidney

虚胖 xū pàng

puffiness

脾虚 pí xū

depletion of the spleen (Chinese medicine)

虚荣心 xū róng xīn

vanity

虚荣 xū róng

vanity

虚实 xū shí

what is true and what is false / (to get to know) the real situation

谦虚 qiān xū

modest / self-effacing / to make modest remarks

虚名 xū míng

false reputation

体虚 tǐ xū

weak

虚心 xū xīn

open-minded / humble

名不虚传 míng bù xū chuán

lit. name is not in vain (idiom); a fully justified reputation / enjoys a well-deserved reputation

气虚 qì xū

deficiency of 氣|气[qi4] (TCM)

心虚 xīn xū

lacking in confidence / diffident / to have a guilty conscience

虚空 xū kōng

void / hollow / empty

虚无 xū wú

nothingness

虚张声势 xū zhāng shēng shì

(false) bravado / to bluff

趁虚而入 chèn xū ér rù

avail oneself of the opportunity to get in