Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high
JLPT level: N1
1454 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke count: 11
Meaning: void, emptiness, unpreparedness, crack, fissure, untruth
Kunyomi: むな.しい うつ.ろ
Onyomi: キョ コ
Composition: 虍 一
Radical: 虍
Meaning: tiger stripes
虚 (キョ) unpreparedness, falsehood, Chinese "Emptiness" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
虚偽 (キョギ) falsehood, untruth, lie, misinformation, fallacy (logic)
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 universe, taixu (the great vacuity, in Chinese philosophy, the primordial substance that gives rise to qi)
虚偽 (キョギ) falsehood, untruth, lie, misinformation, fallacy (logic)
虚空 (コクウ) empty space, empty sky
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)
Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high
JLPT level: N1
1454 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke count: 11
Meaning: void, emptiness, unpreparedness, crack, fissure, untruth
Kunyomi: むな.しい うつ.ろ
Onyomi: キョ コ
Composition: 虍 一
Radical: 虍
Meaning: tiger stripes
虚 (キョ) unpreparedness, falsehood, Chinese "Emptiness" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
虚偽 (キョギ) falsehood, untruth, lie, misinformation, fallacy (logic)
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 universe, taixu (the great vacuity, in Chinese philosophy, the primordial substance that gives rise to qi)
虚偽 (キョギ) falsehood, untruth, lie, misinformation, fallacy (logic)
虚空 (コクウ) empty space, empty sky
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)