伪 (wěi): false, fake, forged
伪 (wěi) is a Chinese character meaning “false.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 亻 (semantic) and 为 (phonetic). It ranks #1546 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 伪 is a compound character. Its radical form 亻 (person) appears in many related characters such as 人 (rén, person), 什 (shén, what), 今 (jīn, now).
Definitions
- false
- fake
- forged
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 伪装verb | wěi zhuāng | to pretend to be (asleep etc) |
| 伪造verb | wěi zào | to forge |
| 虚伪adjective | xū wěi | false |
| 伪君子noun | wěi jūn zǐ | hypocrite |
| 伪证noun | wěi zhèng | perjury |
| 伪善adjective | wěi shàn | hypocritical |
| 伪钞noun | wěi chāo | counterfeit currency |
| 真伪noun | zhēn wěi | true or bogus |
| 伪科学noun | wěi kē xué | pseudoscience |
| 伪造品 | wěi zào pǐn | counterfeit object |
| 防伪verb | fáng wěi | to prevent counterfeiting |
| 伪劣adjective | wěi liè | inferior |
| 假冒伪劣phrase | jiǎ mào wěi liè | cheap quality counterfeit (goods) |
| 伪命题noun | wěi mìng tí | false proposition |
| 伪造者noun | wěi zào zhě | forger |
伪 appears in 35 compound words: 77 as the first character, 14 as the last, and 9 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 伪 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (2)
Showing 1 of 2 idioms containing 伪.
Example Sentences
她伪长得很美，心地也很善良。
tā wěi cháng dé hěn měi , xīn dì yě hěn shàn liáng .
She is exceptionally beautiful and has a kind heart.
海巡:中国海警扰金门并伪造影片 典型认知作战
hǎi xún : zhōng guó hǎi jǐng rǎo jīn mén bìng wěi zào yǐng piàn diǎn xíng rèn zhī zuò zhàn
Coast Guard: The Chinese Coast Guard harassed Kinmen and forged videos Typical cognitive warfare
引爆猪瘟 猪农父子涉伪造文书被诉
yǐn bào zhū wēn zhū nóng fù zǐ shè wěi zào wén shū bèi sù
Detonating swine fever Pig farmer father and son were sued for forging documents
中国籍男子涉为200人伪造日本居留证明被捕
zhōng guó jí nán zǐ shè wéi 2 0 0 rén wěi zào rì běn jū liú zhèng míng bèi bǔ
A Chinese man was arrested for forging Japanese residence certificates for 200 people
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收假前追一波!最新烧脑神剧《莎拉的真伪人生》 结局翻转再翻转
shōu jiǎ qián zhuī yī bō ! zuì xīn shāo nǎo shén jù 莎 lā de zhēn wěi rén shēng jié jú fān zhuǎn zài fān zhuǎn
Chase a wave before the holiday! The latest brain-burning drama "Sarah's True and False Life" has a flipped ending and flipped again
这真是彻底的虚伪！
Zhè zhēnshi chèdǐ de xūwěi!
This is pure hypocrisy!
他伪装成警察逃跑了。
Tā wěizhuāng chéng jǐngchá táopǎo le.
He got away disguised as a policeman.
我从来没有见过谁像你这么虚伪的。
Wǒ cóngláiméiyǒu jiàn guo shéi xiàng nǐ zhème xūwěi de.
I've never known anyone as hypocritical as you.
已经不需要再伪装了。
Yǐjīng bù xūyào zài wěizhuāng le.
There's no need to pretend anymore.
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