imaginary reputation / empty fame
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(math.) imaginary part (of a complex number)
virtual circuit / VC
to play tricks / to deceive
(coll.) all show and no substance
light and airy / floating
(idiom) a false alarm / a scare that turns out to be nothing
to take advantage of weakness
Switched Virtual Circuit / SVC
(idiom) to use the abstract to guide the concrete
to feel guilty as a thief (idiom) / to have sth on one's conscience
to discuss matters of principle (as opposed to concrete issues)
facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom) / baseless fabrication
facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom) / baseless fabrication
great emptiness / the void / heaven / the skies / universe / cosmos / original essence of the cosmos
to practice fraud (idiom) / by trickery
to exist in name only / empty shell / useless (idiom)
see 徒有虛名|徒有虚名[]
with an undeserved reputation (idiom) / unwarranted fame / nowhere near as good as he's made out to be
vain
see 所言非虛|所言非虚[]
(after a pronoun or name) what (you, they etc) say is true
deliberately mystifying / to make sth unnecessarily complicated
see 此言非虛|此言非虚[]
that is true
deficiency of 氣|气[] (TCM)
Permanent Virtual Circuit / PVC
to have an undeserved reputation (idiom)
to hide one's treasure away so that no-one knows about it (idiom) / fig. modest about one's talents / to hide one's light under a bushel
(intentionally) mysterious / arcane
to feel weak / to be diffident
see 耳聽為虛，眼見為實|耳听为虚，眼见为实[]
(idiom) what one hears may be unreliable, but what one sees is true / seeing is believing
background blurring (photography)
depletion of the spleen (Chinese medicine)
(TCM) kidney deficiency
(idiom) stay clear of the enemy's main force and strike at his weak points
see 避實就虛|避实就虚[]
deficiency of yin 陰|阴[] (TCM)
an excess of heat caused by a deficiency in Yin energy (idiom)
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27