HSK 6 · Adjectives

虚假 xūjiǎ “false” in Chinese

Traditional 虛假

What 虚假 means

  1. false
  2. fake
  3. sham
  4. phony

How to say 虚假

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale虚xū1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale假jiǎ3rd tone, dipping

虚假 in a sentence

  1. 唐纳德彻底告别了那种虚假的生活。

    Tángnàdé chèdǐ gàobié le nà zhǒng xūjiǎ de shēnghuó.

    Donald has said goodbye to that fake life for good.

    Sentence #13564964 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 虚假 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 虚 (xū) with each of its parts in a different colour
虚xūemptiness
  • 虍tiger · hū
  • 业business · yè
The character 假 (jià) with each of its parts in a different colour
假jiǎfake
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 叚false

Memory aidPerson 亻 with 叚 (jiǎ) for the sound: false, fake. Read jià, it means a holiday.

How to write 虚假

虚 11 strokes · 假 11 strokes

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虚假 (xūjiǎ) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 虚假 (xūjiǎ). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 虚假

Words with 虚

谦虚qiānxū · modest虚心xūxīn · open-minded虚伪xūwěi · hypocritical空虚kōngxū · empty虚荣xūróng · vanity

Words with 假

请假qǐngjià · to ask for time off假期jiàqī · holiday放假fàngjià · to have a holiday休假xiūjià · to take leave假jiǎ · false寒假hánjià · winter holidays放暑假fàngshǔjià · to be on summer holidays假装jiǎzhuāng · to feign假设jiǎshè · to suppose假如jiǎrú · if

More words: Adjectives

雄伟xióngwěi · majestic喜闻乐见xǐwénlèjiàn · popular细致xìzhì · careful悬殊xuánshū · very different虚伪xūwěi · hypocritical严峻yánjùn · severe严厉yánlì · strict严密yánmì · tight

FAQs

虚假 (xūjiǎ) means “false” or “fake”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it xūjiǎ: xū with a 1st tone, then jiǎ with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 虚假 is written 虛假. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xujia with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 虚假 from the suggestions. Typing xujia into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
虚假 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.