Kanji

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

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: tiger stripes

Examples

Onyomi Examples

キョ unpreparedness, falsehood, Chinese "Emptiness" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)

キョギ falsehood, untruth, lie, misinformation, fallacy (logic)

エイキョ waxing and waning (of the moon), phase, rising and falling (of fortune)

タイキョ the sky, the universe, taixu (the great vacuity, in Chinese philosophy, the primordial substance that gives rise to qi)

キョギ falsehood, untruth, lie, misinformation, fallacy (logic)

コクウ empty space, empty sky

Kunyomi Examples

しい むなしい empty, void, vacant, vain, fruitless, futile, ineffective, lifeless

うつろ cavity, hollow, void, hollow (voice, smile, etc.), blank (eyes, look, etc.), vacant (expression, stare, etc.), empty (words, heart, etc.)

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)