The kanji 虚: meaning, readings and stroke order
虚
- Meaning
- empty, false
- On reading
- キョ kyo、コ* ko
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 虍 tiger, tiger stripes
- Level
- Level 8 · the last years of junior high
- Old form
- 虛
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- trống rỗng, giả dối (hư)
- Japanese
- なかみが ない。うそ。
- Korean
- 비다, 거짓 (허)
- Chinese
- 空虚、虚假
Readings, words and example sentences
キョ kyo · on reading · less common
虚構
fiction, made-up story
この 話は 虚構です。
This story is fiction.
* marks a less common reading, usually learnt from junior high on.
Practise writing 虚 in the app
In Dino Kids your child writes 虚 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 8 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.
Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.