形同虚设 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 形同虛設 xíngtóngxūshè ㄒㄧㄥˊ ㄊㄨㄥˊ ㄒㄩ ㄕㄜˋ to exist in name only empty shell useless (idiom) Character by character 形(xíng)appear 同(tóng)like 虚(xū)emptiness 设(shè)set up A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0