仿 (fǎng): to imitate, to copy, used in 彷彿|仿佛
仿 (fǎng) is a Chinese character meaning “to imitate.” Classified as HSK Level 5 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 亻 (semantic) and 方 (phonetic). It ranks #1251 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 仿 to imitate a person. Its radical form 亻 (person) appears in many related characters such as 人 (rén, person), 什 (shén, what), 今 (jīn, now).
Definitions
- to imitate
- to copy
- used in 彷彿|仿佛
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 仿
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 仿真 | fǎng zhēn | to emulate |
| 相仿 | xiāng fǎng | similar |
| 仿制品 | fǎng zhì pǐn | counterfeit object |
| 仿制 | fǎng zhì | to copy |
| 效仿 | xiào fǎng | see 仿傚|仿效[fang3 xiao4] |
| 仿生 | fǎng shēng | to design an artificial system, taking inspiration from a living organism |
| 仿造 | fǎng zào | to copy |
| 仿冒 | fǎng mào | to counterfeit |
| 仿照 | fǎng zhào | to imitate |
| 仿效 | fǎng xiào | to copy |
| 摹仿 | mó fǎng | variant of 模仿[mo2 fang3] |
| 仿皮 | fǎng pí | imitation leather |
| 仿古 | fǎng gǔ | pseudo-classical |
| 仿生学 | fǎng shēng xué | bionics |
| 仿射子空间 | fǎng shè zǐ kōng jiān | (math.) affine subspace |
仿 appears in 34 compound words: 76 as the first character, 21 as the last, and 3 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 仿 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
这位老仿虽然年过八旬，但身体依然硬朗。
zhè wèi lǎo fǎng suī rán nián guò bā xún , dàn shēn tī yī rán yìng lǎng .
Though over eighty years old, this old man remains in robust health.
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汤姆与你年龄相仿。
Tāngmǔ yǔ nǐ niánlíng xiāngfǎng.
Tom is your age.
他模仿了梵高的作品。
Tā mófǎng le Fán Gāo de zuòpǐn.
He imitated the works of Van Gogh.
鹦鹉会模仿人的声音。
Yīngwǔ huì mófǎng rén de shēngyīn.
A parrot can imitate human speech.
当我们回眸青春，仿佛有一种说不出的痛。
Dāng wǒmen huímóu qīngchūn, fǎngfú yǒu yīzhǒng shuōbuchū de tòng.
When we look back at our youth, there seems to be an indescribable pain.
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