Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
tiger stripes
Parts:
Variants:
void, emptiness, unpreparedness, crack, fissure, untruth
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1454 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 虚 【キョ】 unpreparedness, falsehood, Chinese "Emptiness" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
  • 虚偽 【キョギ】 falsehood, untruth, lie, misinformation, fallacy
  • 盈虚 【エイキョ】 waxing and waning (of the moon), phase, rising and falling (of fortune)
  • 太虚 【タイキョ】 the sky, the heavens, Great Void (in ancient Chinese philosophy, the primordial substance that gives rise to qi)
  • 虚偽 【キョギ】 falsehood, untruth, lie, misinformation, fallacy
  • 虚空 【コクウ】 empty space, empty sky

Kun reading compounds

  • 虚しい 【むなしい】 empty, void, vacant, vain, fruitless, futile, ineffective, lifeless
  • 虚ろ 【うつろ】 cavity, hollow, void, hollow (voice, smile, etc.), blank (eyes, look, etc.), vacant (expression, stare, etc.), empty (words, heart, etc.)
  • 虚舟 【うつろぶね】 unidentified craft said to have washed ashore in Ibaraki Prefecture during the Edo period (sometimes alleged to have been a UFO)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xu1
Korean:
heo

Spanish

  • vacío
  • vano
  • hueco

Portuguese

  • vazio
  • vacuidade
  • despreparo
  • abertura
  • fissura
  • falsidade

French

  • vide
  • impréparation
  • craquelure
  • fissure
  • contre-vérité
1156 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1588 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4109 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1484 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1712 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1519 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1572 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1678 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1741 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1601 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4017 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2053 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2778 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2012 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
32708 Morohashi
3237 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5269 New Nelson (John Haig)
1993 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2148 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1481 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1274 2001 Kanji
2m9.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-4-7 SKIP code
3-6-5 SKIP code
2121.2 Four corner code
1-21-85 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
865a Unicode hex code

6 strokes
Radical:
woman, female
Parts:
delusion, unnecessarily, without authority, reckless
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2264 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 妄想 【モウソウ】 delusion, wild idea, (wild) fancy, (ridiculous) fantasy
  • 盲信 【モウシン】 blind acceptance, blind belief, credulity
  • 迷妄 【メイモウ】 illusion, fallacy, delusion
  • 謬妄 【ビュウモウ】 fallacy, conjecture, baseless thing, random thing
  • 妄想 【モウソウ】 delusion, wild idea, (wild) fancy, (ridiculous) fantasy
  • 盲信 【モウシン】 blind acceptance, blind belief, credulity
  • 狂妄 【キョウボウ】 eccentric, wild, off-kilter, mad
  • 誣謗 【フボウ】 slander

Kun reading compounds

  • 妄りに 【みだりに】 without authority, without reason, unnecessarily, recklessly, indiscriminately, arbitrarily

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wang4
Korean:
mang

Spanish

  • ilusión
  • engaño
  • innecesariamente
  • arbitrariamente
  • sin razón

Portuguese

  • desilusão
  • desnecessariamente
  • sem autoridade
  • inconsequente

French

  • illusion
  • inutile
  • sans autorisation
  • imprudent
1851 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1937 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
288 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1186 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1376 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1463 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1696 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
424 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2509 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1273 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1739 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
498 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
6063 Morohashi
2016 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1177 New Nelson (John Haig)
487 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
526 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1071 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
469 2001 Kanji
2j4.6 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-4 SKIP code
0040.4 Four corner code
1-44-49 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5984 Unicode hex code