Illustration: In a small community theater, two actors enact a dramatic sea rescue in a boat resting firmly on the stage floor. One reaches toward an imaginary drowning companion while a stagehand crouches nearby, lifting cloth waves around the hull.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

虚きょ構こう

kyokou

fiction, fabrication

Example sentences

彼かれには事実じじつと虚構きょこうの区別くべつがつかない。
He can’t tell fact from fiction.
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事実じじつと虚構きょこうを見分みわけなければならない。
You have to distinguish fact from fiction.
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そんなものは虚構きょこうに過すぎない。
It is only a lie.
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Kanji in 虚構

虚void; emptinessOnキョ・コKunむなしい・うつろ
構posture; stanceOnコウKunかまえる・かまう

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