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old variant of 虛|虚[xū]
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虗 consists of the tiger radical 虍 enclosing 丘, a component meaning hill or mound, and thus presents a form that departs from the standard 虛. It is an orthographic variant of 虛, bearing the identical meanings: emptiness, hollowness, or physical weakness. The standard 虛 uses a different component below 虍; the presence of 丘 in 虗 stems from a historical scribal substitution that never attained universal acceptance. For this reason, the variant 虗 never entered common usage and is now seen only in classical texts and historical calligraphy.
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