adjective HSK 7-9 #7,826

Meanings

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

Examples

Tā hěn xūxīn.
He is very humble.
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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