Chinese symbol for “fanciful”
虚无缥缈
xū wú piāo miǎo
Traditional: 虛無縹緲
illusory; imaginary; fanciful
The closest CC-CEDICT match for fanciful is 虚无缥缈 (xū wú piāo miǎo), defined as: illusory; imaginary; fanciful.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 虚无缥缈.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 虚拟 (虛擬) | xū nǐ | to imagine; to make up; fictitious; theoretical; hypothetical |
| 虚假 (虛假) | xū jiǎ | false; phony; sham |
| 虚构 (虛構) | xū gòu | to make up; fabrication |
| 虚伪 (虛偽) | xū wěi | false; hypocritical |
| 空虚 (空虛) | kōng xū | hollow; emptiness |
| 虚弱 (虛弱) | xū ruò | weak; in poor health |
| 无法 (無法) | wú fǎ | unable to; incapable of |
| 无论 (無論) | wú lùn | no matter what or how; regardless of whether... |
| 缥缈 (縹緲) | piāo miǎo | variant of 飘渺 (piāo miǎo) |
| 飘缈 (飄緲) | piāo miǎo | variant of 飘渺 (piāo miǎo) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “fanciful”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.