子虚乌有 — Chinese idiom
子虚乌有
zǐ xū wū yǒu
Traditional: 子虛烏有
Meaning
- to have no basis in fact; to be the product of sb's imagination
Character by character
- 子zǐson, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thing
- 虚xūfalse; worthless, hollow, empty; vain
- 乌wūcrow, rook, raven; black, dark
- 有yǒuto have, to own, to possess; to exist
Idioms sharing a character
- 乱臣贼子 luàn chén zéi zǐ
- 仁人君子 rén rén jūn zǐ
- 佳人才子 jiā rén cái zǐ
- 多子多福 duō zǐ duō fú
- 妻离子散 qī lí zǐ sàn
- 子丑寅卯 zǐ chǒu yín mǎo
- 子子孙孙 zǐ zǐ sūn sūn
- 子承父业 zǐ chéng fù yè
- 孺子可教 rú zǐ kě jiào
- 封妻荫子 fēng qī yìn zǐ
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