虛

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

Translingual

Japanese 虚
Simplified 虚
Traditional 虛

Han character

虛 (Kangxi radical 141, 虍+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 卜心廿一 (YPTM), four-corner 21212)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: 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

trad. 虛
simp. 虚
alternative forms 虗

Glyph origin

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

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

Pronunciation


Note:
  • Taiwan:
    • hi - vernacular;
    • hu - literary.
Note:
  • 1he - vernacular;
  • 1xy - 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
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/
Bernard
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

虛

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

Compounds

Etymology 2

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

References

Japanese

Shinjitai

虚

Kyūjitai

虛

Kanji

虛

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 虚)

  1. emptiness, void
  2. falsehood, lie

Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

虛: Hán Nôm readings: hư

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