Meaning
虚構 (きょこう, kyokou) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “fabrication; fiction”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 8
彼の話は全て虚構でした
Everything he said was untrue.
彼の話はまったくの虚構だ.
His account is complete fiction [is totally fictitious].
君は虚構の世界に住んでいるんだ.
You live in a make‐believe world.
詳細は聖徳太子虚構説の節を参照。
For further details, see the section "Opinion about Shotoku Taishi as a fictitious figure."
彼には事実と虚構の区別がつかない。
He can't tell fact from fiction.
事実と虚構を見分けなければならない。
You have to distinguish fact from fiction.
彼女には事実と虚構の区別がつかなかった.
She did not know fact from fiction [right from wrong].
ボブは酷く取り乱していて、現実と虚構の区別がほとんど出来なかった。
Bob was so beside himself that he could scarcely tell fact from fiction.