虚发 (虛發) xūfā

xūfā verb to miss the target (with a bullet or an arrow)
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '虛發')

Contained in

• 弹无虚发(彈無虛發) the bullets will not be shot for nothing

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷六 Scroll 6 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
• 卷十七　楚四 Chapter 17: Chu IV Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 2
• 卷七 Scroll 7 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
• 卷三十六 Scroll 36 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 1
• 卷一百七十四 列傳第一百二十四: 李德裕 Volume 174 Biographies 124: Li Deyu Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 1
• 卷二百下 列傳第一百五十下: 朱泚 黃巢 秦宗權 Volume 200 Biographies 150: Zhu Ci, Huang Chao, Qin Zongchuan Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 1
• 第十一回 Chapter 11 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 1
• 卷28 列傳第20 史寧 陸騰 賀若敦 權景宣 Volume 28 Biographies 20: Shi Ning; Lu Teng; He Ruodun; Quan Jingxuan Book of Zhou 周書 — count: 1
• 第四十三回 Chapter 43 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 1
• 卷一百一十二 載記第十二 苻洪 苻健 苻生 Volume 112 Records 12: Fu Hong; Fu Jian; Fu Sheng; Fu Xiong; Wang Duo Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 1

Collocations

• 能虚发 (能虛發) 臣能虛發而下鳥 — Wenxuan 文選, 卷一 Scroll 1 — count: 7