虚 xū
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 虍 — tiger
- Made of
- 虍 tiger 业 business, profession
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
虚构
xūgòu
to fabricate; to fictionalise
Characters in this word
构 gòu
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 作者虚构了一座被沙漠吞没的古城，以隐喻文明的衰落。 Zuòzhě xūgòu le yí zuò bèi shāmò tūnmò de gǔchéng, yǐ yǐnyù wénmíng de shuāiluò. The author invented an ancient city swallowed by the desert as a metaphor for the decline of civilisation.
- 这部小说不完全是虚构的，融入了作者的真实经历。 Zhè bù xiǎoshuō bù wánquán shì xūgòu de, róngrù le zuòzhě de zhēnshí jīnglì. This novel is not entirely made up; it incorporates the author's real experiences.
- 为了让简历更好看，他虚构了三年的工作经历。 Wèile ràng jiǎnlì gèng hǎokàn, tā xūgòu le sān nián de gōngzuò jīnglì. To make his résumé look better, he fabricated three years of work experience.
Related words
- 虚心 xūxīn modest
- 谦虚 qiānxū modest; to be modest
- 空虚 kōngxū empty; hollow; void
- 弄虚作假 nòngxūzuòjiǎ to falsify; to cheat; to resort to deception
- 虚 xū empty; hollow; vague
- 虚幻 xūhuàn unreal; illusory
- 虚假 xūjiǎ false; fake
- 虚拟 xūnǐ virtual; to simulate
- 虚荣 xūróng vanity; vain
- 虚弱 xūruò weak; feeble
- 虚伪 xūwěi hypocritical; false
- 构成 gòuchéng to form