| xū | devoid of content/void/false/empty/vain |
| 虚 | emptiness void abstract theory or guiding principles |
| 虚与委蛇 | pretense at complying (idiom); sham gestures of politeness |
| 虚价 | [Economics] nominal price |
| 虚伪 | FALSE hypocritical artificial |
| 虚伪类真 | false but apparently real |
| 虚位以待 | to reserve a seat to leave a position vacant |
| 虚假 | FALSE phony pretense |
| 虚像 | virtual image |
| 虚击 | to feint |
| 虚名 | false reputation |
| 虚头 | to play tricks to deceive |
| 虚夸 | to boast to brag boastful |
| 虚套子 | mere formalities; conventionalities |
| 虚妄 | fabricated |
| 虚字 | empty word; function word |
| 虚实 | what is true and what is false (to get to know) the real situation |
| 虚宫格 | four-square box in which one practices writing a Chinese character |
| 虚岁 | traditional Asian method of calculating a person's age, which holds that a baby is one year old at birth as opposed to 足歲|足岁 |
| 虚己以听 | to listen to the ideas of others with an open mind (idiom) |
| 虚席以待 | to reserve a seat for sb (idiom) |