虚有其表 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 虛有其表 xūyǒuqíbiǎo ㄒㄩ ㄧㄡˇ ㄑㄧˊ ㄅㄧㄠˇ looks impressive but is worthless (idiom) not as good as it looks a reputation with no substance Character by character 虚(xū)emptiness 有(yǒu)have 其(qí)his 表(biǎo)exterior surface A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0