伪
false; fake; forged; bogus; (prefix) pseudo-; Taiwan pr. [wei4]
6 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,798 U+4F2A
How 伪 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
亻 (semantic) + 为 (phonetic, wèi)
How to remember it
bogus · Heisig RSH #797
人 person + 为 act
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 为
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 为 (wèi) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 为 sound component | wèi | to do, to act; to handle, to govern; to be |
| 沩 | guī | a river in Shanxi province |
Words containing 伪
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 伪基百科 | Wěi jī bǎi kē | Uncyclopedia (satirical website parodying Wikipedia) |
| 伪阳性 | wěi yáng xìng | false positive |
| 伪科学 | wěi kē xué | pseudoscience |
| 伪阴性 | wěi yīn xìng | false negative |
| 伪造者 | wěi zào zhě | forger |
| 虚伪类真 | xū wěi lèi zhēn | false but apparently real |
| 伪代码 | wěi dài mǎ | pseudocode |
| 伪善者 | wěi shàn zhě | hypocrite |
| 伪造品 | wěi zào pǐn | counterfeit object; forgery; fake |
| 伪纪录片 | wěi jì lù piàn | mockumentary |
| 伪君子 | wěi jūn zǐ | hypocrite |
| 伪命题 | wěi mìng tí | false proposition; fundamentally flawed notion; (in popular usage, can also refer to anyth… |
| 伪经 | wěi jīng | forged scriptures; bogus classic; pseudepigrapha; apocrypha |
| 伪书 | wěi shū | forged book; book of dubious authenticity; misattributed book; Apocrypha |
| 伪军 | wěi jūn | puppet army |
| 伪装 | wěi zhuāng | to pretend to be (asleep etc); to disguise oneself as; pretense; disguise; (military) to c… |
| 伪朝 | wěi cháo | illegitimate dynasty; pretender dynasty |
| 伪证 | wěi zhèng | perjury |
| 证伪 | zhèng wěi | to disprove; to confirm (sth) to be false |
| 伪托 | wěi tuō | faking a modern object as an ancient one |