偽 (ngai6 | wei3) : false; counterfeit; illegal

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偽

ngai6

wei3

false; counterfeit; illegal

may be written as 僞

Stroke count: 11

Level: 3

Radical: 亻 (#9)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

偽 / 伪

This word has been viewed 8348 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 12th Nov 2009 09:58

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虛偽 heoi1 ngai6 xu1 wei3 = false; artificial; hypocritical

偽造 ngai6 zou6 wei3 zao4 = to fake; to forge

偽劣 ngai6 lyut3 wei3 lie4 = inferior; false

偽君子 ngai6 gwan1 zi2 wei3 jun1 zi3 = hypocrite

偽善 ngai6 sin6 wei3 shan4 = hypocritical

偽善者 ngai6 sin6 ze2 wei4 shan4 zhe3 = hypocrite

偽幣 ngai6 bai6 wei3 bi4 = counterfeit currency

偽托 ngai6 tok3 wei3 tuo1 = faking a modern object as an ancient one

偽裝 ngai6 zong1 wei3 zhuang1 = camouflage; disguise; to pretend

偽證 ngai6 zing3 wei3 zheng4 = perjury
See all 20 compounds (CantoDict reports 22 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing 1 example containing 偽

佢超虛偽。粵
She's super hypocritical.

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Decimal representation of this word: 偽
Unicode code for this character: U+507d (off-site link)

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