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虛

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See also: 虚, 虗, and 虎
虛 U+865B, 虛
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-865B
← 虚
[U+865A] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 虜 →
[U+865C]

Translingual

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Japanese 虚
Simplified 虚
Traditional 虛

Han character

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虛 (Kangxi radical 141, 虍+6, 12 strokes, Cangjie input 卜心廿一 (YPTM), four-corner 21212, composition ⿸虍⿱丱一)

Derived characters

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Additional derived characters

References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1074, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32709
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1541, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2825, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+865B

Chinese

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trad. 虛
simp. 虚
alternative forms 虗

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character 虛
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (虍) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
唬 *qʰraːs, *kʷraːɡ
戲 *qʰral, *qʰrals, *qʰaː
巇 *qʰra
隵 *qʰra
嚱 *qʰras
盧 *b·raː
鑪 *raː
壚 *raː
籚 *raː
蘆 *raː, *ra
顱 *b·raː
髗 *b·raː
鱸 *raː
攎 *raː
櫨 *raː
轤 *raː
黸 *raː
獹 *raː
鸕 *raː
艫 *raː
纑 *raː
瀘 *raː
瓐 *raː
爐 *raː
嚧 *raː
矑 *b·raː
罏 *raː
蠦 *raː
虜 *raːʔ
擄 *raːʔ
艣 *raːʔ
鐪 *raːʔ
虖 *qʰaː, *qʰʷa, *qʰaː, *qʰʷa
虍 *qʰaː
雐 *qʰʷlaː
虎 *qʰlaːʔ
琥 *qʰlaːʔ
萀 *qʰlaːʔ
臚 *b·ra
廬 *ra
驢 *b·ra
藘 *ra
爈 *ra, *ras
櫖 *ra, *ras
儢 *raʔ
慮 *ras
勴 *ras
鑢 *ras
濾 *ras
攄 *r̥ʰa
處 *kʰljaʔ, *kʰljas
豦 *kas, *ɡa
據 *kas
鐻 *kas, *ɡa, *ɡaʔ
澽 *kas, *ɡas
虛 *kʰa, *qʰa
墟 *kʰa
懅 *ɡa
蘧 *ɡa, *ɡʷa
籧 *ɡa
醵 *ɡa, *ɡas, *ɡaɡ
璩 *ɡa
虡 *ɡaʔ
遽 *ɡas
勮 *ɡas
噓 *qʰa, *qʰas
驉 *qʰa
歔 *qʰa
魖 *qʰa
膚 *pla
虧 *kʰʷral
噱 *ɡaɡ
臄 *ɡaɡ
劇 *ɡaɡ
諕 *qʰʷraːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰa, *qʰa): phonetic 虍 (OC *qʰaː) + semantic 丘 (“hill”). The lower component retains the shape of 丠, the ancient form of 丘.

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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Note:
  • Taiwan:
    • hi - vernacular;
    • hu - literary.
Note:
  • 1he/1hoe/1hei/1hae - vernacular;
  • 1shiu/1shi - literary.
Rime
Character 虛 虛
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 曉 (32) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 魚 (22) 魚 (22)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 朽居切 去魚切
Baxter xjo khjo
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/hɨʌ/ /kʰɨʌ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/hiɔ/ /kʰiɔ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/xiɔ/ /kʰiɔ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/hɨə̆/ /kʰɨə̆/
Li
Rong 		/xiɔ/ /kʰiɔ/
Wang
Li 		/xĭo/ /kʰĭo/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/xi̯wo/ /kʰi̯wo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xū qū
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		heoi1 heoi1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 虛 虛
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		xū xū
Middle
Chinese 		‹ khjo › ‹ xjo ›
Old
Chinese 		/*C.qʰ(r)a/ /*qʰ(r)a/
English hill, mound; abandoned city empty

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 虛 虛
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 5254 5269
Phonetic
component 		虍 虍
Rime
group 		魚 魚
Rime
subdivision 		0 0
Corresponding
MC rime 		虚 虚
Old
Chinese 		/*kʰa/ /*qʰa/

Definitions

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虛

  1. empty; hollow
  2. false; worthless; vain
  3. (astronomy) Emptiness, a Chinese constellation near Aquarius and Equuleus

Compounds

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Etymology 2

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For pronunciation and definitions of 虛 – see 譃 (“to lie”).
(This character is a variant form of 譃).

References

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  • “虛”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “虚”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 267.

Japanese

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Shinjitai

虚

Kyūjitai

虛

Kanji

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虛

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 虚)

  1. emptiness, void
  2. falsehood, lie

Readings

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  • Go-on: こ (ko)
  • Kan-on: きょ (kyo)
  • Kun: むなしい (munashii, 虛しい)、うつろ (utsuro, 虛ろ)

Korean

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Hanja

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Historical readings

虛 • (heo) (hangeul 허, revised heo, McCune–Reischauer hŏ, Yale he)

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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虛: Hán Nôm readings: hư

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