Hanja Analyzer
偽

偽 — wi

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

This is the Japanese glyph form. The Korean form is 僞.

Korean reading
거짓 위
Romanization
wi
English
false, counterfeit, bogus
Mandarin
wěi
Japanese on'yomi
ギ, イ, カ, ガ
Japanese kun'yomi
いつわ.る にせ いつわ.り
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Secondary (Jōyō)
Newspaper frequency
#1,171 of 2,500
Strokes
11
Variant forms
僞
Radical
人 (9, 9 residual)
Unicode
U+507D

Parts that make up 偽

  • 亻 사람 인variant of 人 옆에서 본 사람사람과 사람이 하는 일, 사람의 됨됨이
  • 為 하 위

How 偽 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 偽 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 人, 為.

Japanese words with 偽

  • 偽造ぎぞう forgery; counterfeiting; fabrication
  • 虚偽きょぎ falsehood; untruth; lie
  • 偽にせ imitation; fake; phony
  • 真偽しんぎ truth or falsehood; genuineness; authenticity
  • 偽装ぎそう camouflage; disguise; pretense
  • 偽証ぎしょう false evidence; perjury; false testimony
  • 偽物にせもの spurious article; forgery; counterfeit
  • 偽りいつわり lie; falsehood; fiction
  • 偽善ぎぜん hypocrisy
  • 偽るいつわる to lie; to pretend; to feign
  • 偽名ぎめい false name; alias; assumed name
  • 偽悪ぎあく pretense of evil; pretence of evil

Other hanja read “위”

Other hanja with radical 人

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