Keyword
without a physical form
- void
- emptiness
- unpreparedness
- crack
- fissure
- untruth
- Frequency
- #1454
- Strokes
- 11
- Grade
- 8
- JLPT (old)
- N1
- Heisig
- 2148
Readings
キョ82%
コ9%
むな9%
Mnemonic
A tiger's head glares from the runway and roars at an opponent who is without a physical form: nothing but air.
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Composed of
Used in kanji
Used in vocabulary
虚ける
to become empty (hollow); to relax from a tense situation into a vacant or absent minded state
Ichidan verb
虚ろ
cavity; hollow; void; hollow (voice, smile, etc.); blank (eyes, look, etc.); vacant (expression, stare, etc.); empty (words, heart, etc.)
Noun
虚々実々
full of wiles and tricks; match between persons equal in shrewdness mobilizing all the tricks each can muster; shrewdly avoiding the opponent's strong points and attacking its weaknesses
Noun