Chinese Character Wiki

偽

wěi

false

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 為 represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

為 sound component

為  Sound component

wèi, wéi

  

do

Evolution

偽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
偽 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
偽 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

伪 (偽) 

wěi

false, counterfeit, bogus; false; fake; forged; bogus; (prefix) pseudo-; Taiwan pr. [wèi]

Most common words with 偽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

伪装

pretense

伪造

to forge

虚伪

false

伪

false

伪君子

hypocrite

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*N-ɢʷ(r)aj-s

ngjweH

wěi

FALSE

*m-ɢʷ(r)aj-s

ngjweH

wěi

falsify; deceive


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 17.7158% of movies

1564th most common character in movies

1556th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Simplified

伪

Unicode

U+507D

Shuowen

“偽，詐也。从人，為聲。”


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