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Trad. 虛
- emptiness
- void
- abstract theory or guiding principles
- empty or unoccupied
- diffident or timid
- false
- humble or modest
- (of health) weak
- virtual
- in vain
Trad. 虛實
- what is true and what is false
- (to get to know) the real situation
Trad. 虛掩
- to partially obscure
- (of a door, gate or window) slightly open; ajar; not fully shut; unlocked
- (of a jacket or shirt) unbuttoned
Trad. 虛損
- (TCM) consumptive disease, chronic deficiency disorder due to impaired function of inner organs, deficiency of qi, blood, yin and yang
- asthenia
Trad. 虛擬
- to imagine; to make up
- fictitious; theoretical; hypothetical
- (computing) to emulate
- (computing) virtual
Trad. 虛歲
- 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.
- contrasted with 實歲|实岁[shi2 sui4]
Trad. 虛火
- excess of internal heat due to poor general condition (TCM)
- the prestige of another person, which one borrows for oneself
Trad. 虛脫
- to collapse (from dehydration or loss of blood)
- heat exhaustion
Trad. 務虛
- to discuss matters of principle (as opposed to concrete issues)
Trad. 太虛
- great emptiness
- the void
- heaven
- the skies
- universe
- cosmos
- original essence of the cosmos
Trad. 張若虛
- Zhang Ruoxu (c. 660-720), Tang dynasty poet, author of yuefu poem River on a spring night 春江花月夜
Trad. 虛客族
- people who like to window-shop for unaffordable luxuries
Trad. 虛宮格
- four-square box in which one practices writing a Chinese character
Trad. 虛缺號
- white square character ( □ ), used to represent a missing ideograph
Trad. 浪得虛名
- to have an undeserved reputation (idiom)
Trad. 子虛烏有
- (idiom) to have no basis in fact; to be the product of sb's imagination
Trad. 深藏若虛
- to hide one's treasure away so that no-one knows about it (idiom); fig. modest about one's talents
- to hide one's light under a bushel
Trad. 乘虛而入
- to enter by exploiting a weak spot (idiom); to take advantage of a lapse
Trad. 名不虛傳
- (idiom) to live up to one's famous name; its reputation is well deserved
Trad. 陰虛火旺
- an excess of heat caused by a deficiency in Yin energy (idiom)
Trad. 以虛帶實
- to let correct ideology guide practical work (idiom)
Trad. 形同虛設
- to exist in name only
- empty shell
- useless (idiom)
Trad. 所言不虛
- see 所言非虛|所言非虚[suo3 yan2 fei1 xu1]
Trad. 所言非虛
- (after a pronoun or name) what (you, they etc) say is true
Trad. 虛不受補
- a person who is in poor health cannot handle sth so strong as a tonic
Trad. 虛位以待
- to reserve a seat
- to leave a position vacant
Trad. 座無虛席
- lit. a banquet with no empty seats
- full house
- capacity crowd
- standing room only
Trad. 虛己以聽
- to listen to the ideas of others with an open mind (idiom)
Trad. 徒擁虛名
- to possess an undeserved reputation (idiom)
Trad. 虛席以待
- to reserve a seat for sb (idiom)
Trad. 此言不虛
- see 此言非虛|此言非虚[ci3 yan2 fei1 xu1]
Trad. 徒有虛名
- with an undeserved reputation (idiom); unwarranted fame
- nowhere near as good as he's made out to be
Trad. 虛度光陰
- to waste time on worthless activities
Trad. 虛張聲勢
- (idiom) to bluff; to bluster; to make an empty show of strength
Trad. 虛情假意
- false friendship; hypocritical show of affection
Trad. 虛應了事
- see 虛應故事|虚应故事[xu1 ying4 gu4 shi4]
Trad. 虛懷若谷
- receptive as an echoing canyon (idiom); modest and open-minded
Trad. 虛有其表
- looks impressive but is worthless (idiom)
- not as good as it looks
- a reputation with no substance
Trad. 虛虛實實
- hard to tell if it's real or sham
Trad. 虛頭巴腦
- (coll.) all show and no substance
Trad. 做賊心虛
- to feel guilty as a thief (idiom); to have sth on one's conscience
Trad. 故弄玄虛
- deliberately mystifying
- to make sth unnecessarily complicated
Trad. 弄虛作假
- to practice fraud (idiom); by trickery
Trad. 不虛此行
- (idiom) it's been a worthwhile trip
Trad. 背景虛化
- background blurring (photography)
Trad. 向壁虛構
- facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication
Trad. 向壁虛造
- facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication
Trad. 避實就虛
- (idiom) stay clear of the enemy's main force and strike at his weak points
Trad. 避實擊虛
- see 避實就虛|避实就虚[bi4 shi2 jiu4 xu1]
Trad. 交換虛電路
- Switched Virtual Circuit
- SVC
Trad. 永久虛電路
- Permanent Virtual Circuit
- PVC
Trad. 虛空藏菩薩
- Akasagarbha Bodhisattva
Trad. 虛擬專用網絡
- virtual private network (VPN)
Trad. 虛擬私人網絡
- virtual private network (VPN)
Trad. 虛擬現實置標語言
- virtual reality markup language (VRML) (computing)
Trad. 耳聽為虛，眼見為實
- (idiom) you cannot always trust what you hear, but seeing is believing
Trad. 眼見為實，耳聽為虛
- to believe what one sees, not what one hears (idiom). Don't believe what people tell you until you see if for yourself.
- It ain't necessarily so.