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虚
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Definitions
- 1. emptiness
- 2. void
- 3. abstract theory or guiding principles
- 4. empty or unoccupied
- 5. diffident or timid
- 6. false
- 7. humble or modest
- 8. (of health) weak
- 9. virtual
- 10. in vain
Example Sentences
1 shown座无 虚 席。
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 虚
to go through the motions
to boast
to fritter away (one's time)
false alarm
lit. a banquet with no empty seats
tricky and hypocritical
deficiency of yin 陰|阴[yīn] (TCM)
deficiency of 氣|气[qì] (TCM)
to discuss matters of principle (as opposed to concrete issues)
virtual private network (VPN)
to have an undeserved reputation (idiom)
vanity
virtual particle
Permanent Virtual Circuit
people who like to window-shop for unaffordable luxuries
dotted line
modesty leads to progress, arrogance makes you fall behind (quote of Mao Zedong)
open-minded
virtual reality
facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication
(TCM) consumptive disease, chronic deficiency disorder due to impaired function of inner organs, deficiency of qi, blood, yin and yang
(idiom) you cannot always trust what you hear, but seeing is believing
to misreport
void
virtual environment
(idiom) to have no basis in fact; to be the product of sb's imagination
to partially obscure
dead letter
facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication
false
(intentionally) mysterious; arcane
Zhang Ruoxu (c. 660-720), Tang dynasty poet, author of yuefu poem River on a spring night 春江花月夜
imaginary reputation
null hypothesis (statistics)
to listen to the ideas of others with an open mind (idiom)
four-square box in which one practices writing a Chinese character
see 虛應故事|虚应故事[xū yìng gù shì]
to possess an undeserved reputation (idiom)
to make up
empty formality
deliberately mystifying
(after a pronoun or name) what (you, they etc) say is true
Switched Virtual Circuit
imaginary
an excess of heat caused by a deficiency in Yin energy (idiom)
background blurring (photography)
to waste time on worthless activities
virtual private network (VPN)
(linguistics) function word
a person who is in poor health cannot handle sth so strong as a tonic
virtual network
to practice fraud (idiom); by trickery
(false) bravado
the trip has not been made in vain
fabricated
depletion of the spleen (Chinese medicine)
false but apparently real
to exist in name only
deficiency of yang 陽|阳[yáng] (TCM)
to let correct ideology guide practical work (idiom)
to miss the target (with a bullet or an arrow)
false
unreal
subjunctive mood (grammar)
virtual connection
to reserve a seat
to believe what one sees, not what one hears (idiom). Don't believe what people tell you until you see if for yourself.
to take advantage of weakness
to hide one's treasure away so that no-one knows about it (idiom); fig. modest about one's talents
weak
to imagine; to make up
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[lì chūn] each year, rather than on one's birthday.
(idiom) stay clear of the enemy's main force and strike at his weak points
modest
virtual circuit
to feign civility (idiom)
nominal position
nothingness
fiction
that is true
empty words
Taixu (famed Buddhist monk, 1890-1947)
looks impressive but is worthless (idiom)
to reserve a seat for sb (idiom)
receptive as an echoing canyon (idiom); modest and open-minded
vain
lacking in confidence
see 所言非虛|所言非虚[suǒ yán fēi xū]
virtual image
Akasagarbha Bodhisattva
hard to tell if it's real or sham
imaginary star (in astrology)
with an undeserved reputation (idiom); unwarranted fame
hollow
false alert
see 此言非虛|此言非虚[cǐ yán fēi xū]
lit. name is not in vain (idiom); a fully justified reputation
modest and studious (idiom)
to collapse (from dehydration or loss of blood)
to feel guilty as a thief (idiom); to have sth on one's conscience
excess of internal heat due to poor general condition (TCM)
what is true and what is false
virtual reality markup language (VRML) (computing)
virtual machine
vanity
false
nihilism
to enter by exploiting a weak spot (idiom); to take advantage of a lapse
white square character ( □ ), used to represent a missing ideograph
imaginary number
empty wrist (method of painting)
to play tricks
false friendship; hypocritical show of affection
light and airy
to feel weak
conjugate imaginary number (math)
false reputation