虛

See also: 虚 and 虗
虛 U+865B, 虛
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-865B
← 虚
[U+865A] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 虜 →
[U+865C]

Translingual
Japanese 虚
Simplified 虚
Traditional 虛

Han character

虛 (radical 141, 虍+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 卜心廿一 (YPTM), four-corner 21212)

Derived characters

References
  • KangXi: page 1074, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32709
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1541, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2825, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+865B

Chinese
trad. 虛
simp. 虚
variant forms 虗

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 虛
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (虍) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
唬 *qʰraːs, *kʷraːɡ
戲 *qʰral, *qʰrals, *qʰaː
巇 *qʰra
隵 *qʰra
嚱 *qʰras
盧 *b·raː
鑪 *raː
壚 *raː
籚 *raː
蘆 *raː, *ra
顱 *b·raː
髗 *b·raː
鱸 *raː
攎 *raː
櫨 *raː
轤 *raː
黸 *raː
獹 *raː
鸕 *raː
艫 *raː
纑 *raː
瀘 *raː
瓐 *raː
爐 *raː
嚧 *raː
矑 *b·raː
罏 *raː
蠦 *raː
虜 *raːʔ
擄 *raːʔ
艣 *raːʔ
鐪 *raːʔ
虖 *qʰaː, *qʰʷa, *qʰaː, *qʰʷa
虍 *qʰaː
雐 *qʰʷlaː
虎 *qʰlaːʔ
琥 *qʰlaːʔ
萀 *qʰlaːʔ
臚 *b·ra
廬 *ra
驢 *b·ra
藘 *ra
爈 *ra, *ras
櫖 *ra, *ras
儢 *raʔ
慮 *ras
勴 *ras
鑢 *ras
濾 *ras
攄 *r̥ʰa
處 *kʰljaʔ, *kʰljas
豦 *kas, *ɡa
據 *kas
鐻 *kas, *ɡa, *ɡaʔ
澽 *kas, *ɡas
虛 *kʰa, *qʰa
墟 *kʰa
懅 *ɡa
蘧 *ɡa, *ɡʷa
籧 *ɡa
醵 *ɡa, *ɡas, *ɡaɡ
璩 *ɡa
虡 *ɡaʔ
遽 *ɡas
勮 *ɡas
嘘
驉 *qʰa
歔 *qʰa
魖 *qʰa
膚 *pla
虧 *kʰʷral
噱 *ɡaɡ
臄 *ɡaɡ
劇 *ɡaɡ
諕 *qʰʷraːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʰa, *qʰa) : phonetic 虍 (OC *qʰaː) + semantic 丘 (“hill”). The lower component is retains the shape of 丠, the ancient form of 丘.

Pronunciation
Note:
  • Taiwan:
    • hi - vernacular;
    • hu - literary.
Note:
  • 1he - vernacular;
  • 1xy - literary.
Rime
Character 虛 虛
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 曉 (32) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 魚 (22) 魚 (22)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 朽居切 去魚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /hɨʌ/ /kʰɨʌ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /hiɔ/ /kʰiɔ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xiɔ/ /kʰiɔ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /hɨə̆/ /kʰɨə̆/
Li
Rong		 /xiɔ/ /kʰiɔ/
Wang
Li		 /xĭo/ /kʰĭo/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xi̯wo/ /kʰi̯wo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xū qū
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 虛 虛
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xū xū
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khjo › ‹ xjo ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.qʰ(r)a/ /*qʰ(r)a/
English hill, mound; abandoned city empty

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 虛 虛
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 5254 5269
Phonetic
component		 虍 虍
Rime
group		 魚 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 虚 虚
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰa/ /*qʰa/

Definitions

虛

  1. empty; hollow
  2. false; worthless; vain
  3. (astronomy) Emptiness, a Chinese constellation near Aquarius and Equuleus

Compounds
Derived terms from 虛

Japanese

Shinjitai

 虚

Kyūjitai

 虛

Kanji
虛

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 虚)

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Readings
  • On (unclassified): きょ (kyo); こ (ko)
  • Kun: むなしい (munashii, 虛しい)

Korean

Hanja

虛 • (heo) (hangeul 허, revised heo, McCune–Reischauer hŏ, Yale he)

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Vietnamese

Han character

虛 (hư)

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