Word Meaning 虚栄

きょえい kyoei

虚栄 is read as きょえい (kyoei) and means vanity.

Meaning

English

  1. vanity
  2. vainglory

Reading

Kana

きょえい

Romaji

kyoei

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 20 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Upper Grade Kanken 3級 Rank 14138 Priority C

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

虚栄心

きょえいしん

vanity

虚栄の市

きょえいのいち

Vanity Fair

虚偽

こぎ

fallacy

虚構

きょこう

fiction

虚無

きょむ

nihility

虚言

きょげん

falsehood

虚心

きょしん

open-minded

虚空

こくう

empty space

虚弱

きょじゃく

feebleness

虚実

きょじつ

falsehood and truth

虚々実々

きょきょじつじつ

full of wiles and tricks

虚像

きょぞう

virtual image

Example Sentences

4

Tom was a ball of vanity.

There is, perhaps, not one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as vanity.

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.