伪 wěi — false; fake; bogus; puppet
伪
Level 1 · Common HSK 7-9 #476
Traditional:
僞
wěi wei3
Basic definition
Detailed explanation
verb
- (会意兼形声。从人,从为,为亦声。本义:欺诈)
- cheat;swindle e.g 伪诈 · 伪怠 · 伪服 · 伪人 · 伪巧 · 伪臣 · 伪民 · 伪行
- do
- pretend;feign;disguise e.g 伪廉 · 伪行 · 伪冒 · 伪从 · 伪让
- forge e.g 伪作 伪易 · 伪从
adjective
- false;fake e.g 伪言 · 伪名 · 伪行 · 伪命 · 伪辞 · 伪态 · 伪意 · 伪戾 · 伪俗
- puppet;illegal e.g 伪政府 · 伪组织 · 伪庭 · 伪师 · 伪国 · 伪朝
Related words
- 假冒伪劣 counterfeit and shoddy; fake and inferior
- 伪造 to forge; to counterfeit
- 虚伪 false; hypocritical
- 伪军 puppet army (of the collaborationist regime during the War of Resistance)
- 防伪 to prevent counterfeiting; anti-counterfeiting
- 伪装 to disguise; camouflage
- 伪劣 fake and shoddy; of poor quality
- 真伪 true or false; authenticity
- 伪科学 pseudoscience
- 伪书 a forged book; a spurious text; an apocryphal work
- 伪善 hypocritical; sanctimonious
- 伪证 perjury; false testimony
- 伪君子 hypocrite
- 敌伪 enemy-occupied and puppet (forces) during the anti-Japanese war
- 伪满 the puppet Manchukuo regime
- 作伪 to falsify; to fake; to forge
- 去伪存真 to discard the false and retain the true
- 伪政权 puppet regime; illegitimate government
- 伪娘 (slang) a feminine young man; cross-dressing male performer
- 伪作 a forgery; a spurious work