偽

偽 (radical 9, 人+9, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人戈大火 (OIKF), four-corner 2222₇, composition ⿰亻為)

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 112, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 927
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 195, character 4
• Unihan data for U+507D

Historical forms of the character 偽
Small seal script s05848 Transcribed ancient scripts L21811 L21812
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋʷrals) : semantic 亻 (“man”) + phonetic 為 (OC *ɢʷal, *ɢʷals, “to make”), originally “artificial”.

偽

1. false; counterfeit; bogus; fake

   虛偽 / 虚伪  ―  xūwěi  ―  hypocritical; hypocrisy

   偽造 / 伪造  ―  wěizào  ―  to forge; to counterfeit

   偽鈔 / 伪钞  ―  wěichāo  ―  counterfeit banknote

   偽政權 / 伪政权  ―  wěizhèngquán  ―  puppet government

2. falsehood; untruthfulness
3. illegal; illegitimate
4. pseudo-

   偽麻黃鹼 / 伪麻黄碱  ―  wěimáhuángjiǎn  ―  pseudoephedrine

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 僞)

1. falsehood, lie
2. fake, forgery

• Go-on: が (ga)^{←ぐわ (gwa, historical)}; ぎ (gi, Jōyō)^{←ぎ (gi, historical)←ぐゐ (gwi, ancient)}
• Kan-on: が (ga)^{←ぐわ (gwa, historical)}; ぎ (gi, Jōyō)^{←ぎ (gi, historical)←ぐゐ (gwi, ancient)}
• Kan’yō-on: か (ka)^{←くわ (kwa, historical)}
• Kun: いつわり (itsuwari, 偽り)^{←いつはり (itufari, historical)}; いつわる (itsuwaru, 偽る, Jōyō)^{←いつはる (itufaru, historical)}; にせ (nise, 偽, Jōyō)

/ŋui/ → /ɡwi/ → /ɡi/

From Middle Chinese 僞 (MC ŋˠiuᴇ^H).

• On’yomi
  • (Tokyo) ぎ​ [gíꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [ɡʲi]

偽 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 僞, hiragana ぎ, rōmaji gi)

1. a falsehood, lie

   Synonym: 偽り (itsuwari)

2. (logic) a false statement (usually based without facts)

   Antonyms: 真 (shin), 真理 (shinri)

The 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 似せる (niseru, “copy, imitate, forge”).[2]

• 贋

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) にせ [nìsé] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [ɲ̟ise̞]

偽 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 僞, hiragana にせ, katakana ニセ, rōmaji nise)

1. a counterfeit, forgery
2. an imitation, replica
3. prefixed to nouns:
   1. counterfeit, forged

      偽 (にせ)札 (さつ)

      nisesatsu

      counterfeit paper money

   2. fake, false

      偽 (にせ)学生 (がくせい)

      nise-gakusei

      student with a false identity

• This is an example of a word that can be spelled with katakana to convey an informal conversational tone, as ニセ.

偽 • (wi) (hangeul 위, McCune–Reischauer wi)

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偽 (nguỵ)

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