Amazing Chinese Characters (517) Virtual - 虚（虗）

 The big seal script of character Virtual is

The top is Head of Tiger (Post 492)

The bottom is character Hillock (Post 368)

What does the character mean? There are disputes. Some people believe that the hillock area with tigers are place where few or no people live because it is dangerous, this place is a discarded area, or no man's land. Some others think that the tiger in hillock is not real, but virtual, people's imagination. Some think that people who see a tiger in hillock feel nervous, scared, and too weak to walk.

Anyway, the character has all of the meanings above: discarded area, virtual and not real things or images, and weak.

The small seal script of the character is

The top is Head of Tiger, the bottom is the character Hillock.

The clerical script of the character is

The top is the Head of Tiger, the bottom is the Hillock.

The standard script of the character is

The bottom is 业, which is simplified Chinese character Industry. Here is definitely not Industry, but Hillock. We can see the similarity between the standard script above and the older scripts. 

The traditional song typeface of character Virtual is 虗, the top 虍 is the Head of Tiger, the bottom 丘 is the Hillock, but not really like (see the explanation why in Post 368)

The simplified song typeface of character Virtual is 虚, the top is the same as traditional song typeface, the bottom is 业, which means Hillock.

The Pinyin of the character is Xu1.