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

Speed

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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

11 strokes (also 10)
Radical:
town (阝 right) 邑 (阝)
Parts:
Variants:
section, bureau, dept, class, copy, part, portion, counter for copies of a newspaper or magazine
Kun:
-べ
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
36 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 部 【ブ】 department (in an organization, company, etc.), division, bureau, faculty, club (at a school, university, etc.), team, part, portion, region, area, category, class, division, section, heading, counter for copies of a newspaper, magazine, book, etc.
  • 部位 【ブイ】 part (esp. of the body), region, site, cut (of meat)
  • 情報部 【ジョウホウブ】 information bureau, intelligence department
  • 首脳部 【シュノウブ】 executives, top management, governing body

Readings

Japanese names:
とり、 ふ、 ぺ、 ま
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bu4
Korean:
bu

Spanish

  • sección
  • departamento
  • parte
  • copia

Portuguese

  • seção
  • biro
  • departamento
  • classe
  • cópia
  • parte
  • porção
  • sufixo para contagem de jornais ou revistas

French

  • partie
  • bureau
  • service
  • classe
  • copie
  • section
  • portion
  • compteur de copies (presse)
504 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
407 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
384 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
37 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4767 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
282 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
969 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1418 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.5 Japanese for Busy People
86 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
86 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
53 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
762 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2111 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1099 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1498 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1862 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
39460 Morohashi
1676 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6146 New Nelson (John Haig)
1845 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1988 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
52 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
386 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
444 2001 Kanji
2d8.15 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-3 SKIP code
1-8-2 SKIP code
0762.7 Four corner code
1-41-84 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
90e8 Unicode hex code