adjective HSK 7-9 #7,826

Meanings

  1. 1 empty; void; hollow
  2. 2 humble; modest
  3. 3 false; unreal

Examples

HSK 3
Tā hěn xūxīn.
He is very humble.
HSK 7-9
Zhège gùshi shì xūgòu de.
This story is fictional.

Tips

usage
虚心 (humble), 虚假 (false), 虚构 (fictional), 谦虚 (modest).

Components

radical
tiger top (radical)
Top tiger-skin radical - upper portion of , drawing the striped head and forelegs. As the indexing radical it puts in the tiger-canopy family with tiger, consider, cruel. The tiger top here also lends a sense of vast hollow space, like an empty den.
semantic
business; here a graphic remnant
Bottom - modern 5-stroke shape, but historically this slot held (mound). The simplification flattened the hill into the silhouette. The original sense was a great empty mound, source of 's core meaning of emptiness and hollowness. Read as a graphic placeholder, not the standalone 'industry' meaning.

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