Kanji
N1 11 strokes Grade 8 freq #1454

void, emptiness, unpreparedness, crack, fissure

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

tiger toragashira

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

falsehood; untruth
modest; humble
fiction; fabrication
virtual image
lethargy; despondency
nihility; nothingness
emptiness; hollowness
feebleness; weakness
ostentation; show
falsehood and truth; fiction and fact

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

full of wiles and tricks; match between persons equal in shrewdness mobilizing all the tricks each can muster
empty; void

Example sentences

Time reveals truth as well as falsehood.

I contended against falsehood.

The older he grew, the more modest he became.

The higher he rose in social rank, the more modest he became.