Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- xū
English
- false, worthless
- emptiness
- (adjective) Unreal
- empty, hollow
- void
- 11th lunar mansion, determinative star β Aquarii (Sadalsuud)
- abstract theory or guiding principles
- empty or unoccupied
- diffident or timid
- false
- humble or modest
- (of health) weak
- virtual
- in vain
- fake
- empty
- weak
粵語
- 假嘅；唔真實嘅
- 空；冇嘢喺裏面
- 弱；冇力
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 虛
- 虛假heoi1 gaa2
false; phony; sham
- 虛構heoi1 gau3
to make up
- 謙虛him1 heoi1
modest
- 虛擬heoi1 ji4
to imagine; to make up
- 空虛hung1 heoi1
hollow
- 虛弱heoi1 joek6
weak
- 虛無heoi1 mou4
nothingness
- 虛幻heoi1 waan6
imaginary
- 虛心heoi1 sam1
open-minded
- 虛榮heoi1 wing4
vanity
- 心虛sam1 heoi1
lacking in confidence
- 虛名heoi1 ming4
false reputation
- 虛數heoi1 sou3
imaginary number
- 虛線heoi1 sin3
dotted line
- 虛報heoi1 bou3
to misreport
- 虛詞heoi1 ci4
(linguistics) function word
- 虛實heoi1 sat6
what is true and what is false
- 虛火heoi1 fo2
excess of internal heat due to poor general condition (TCM)
- 虛設heoi1 cit3
Something that is nominal and exist in name only; something that is there to act as a dummy only
- 虛歲heoi1 seoi3
one's age, according to the traditional Chinese method of reckoning (i.e. the number of Chinese calendar years in which one has lived) – In this system, a person's age at birth is one, and increases by one at the beginning of the first solar term 立春[Li4 chun1] each year, rather than on one's birthday.
- 陰虛jam1 heoi1
deficiency of yin 陰|阴[yin1] (TCM)
- 虛驚heoi1 ging1
false alarm
- 腎虛san6 heoi1
(TCM) kidney deficiency
- 虛浮heoi1 fau4
emptied; lack of sunstance