僞

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See also: 偽 and 伪
僞 U+50DE, 僞
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-50DE
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 僟 →

Translingual

Han character

僞 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+12, 14 strokes, cangjie input 人月竹火 (OBHF), four-corner 22227, composition ⿰亻爲)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 117, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1105
  • Dae Jaweon: page 248, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 8 (in addendum), page 9, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+50DE

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 僞
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Jizhuan Guwen Yunhai (compiled in Song) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Qin slip script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (爲) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
譌 *ŋʷaːl
嬀 *kʷral
潙 *kʷral, *ɢʷal
蟡 *kʷralʔ, *qʷral
僞 *ŋʷrals
噅 *qʰʷral
撝 *qʰʷral
爲 *ɢʷal, *ɢʷal, *ɢʷals
鄬 *ɢʷal, *ɢʷalʔ
蔿 *ɢʷalʔ
儰 *ɢʷalʔ
寪 *ɢʷalʔ
蘤 *ɢʷalʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ŋʷrals) : semantic 亻 (“man”) + phonetic 爲 (OC *ɢʷal, *ɢʷal, *ɢʷals, “to make”).

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 僞 – see 偽 (“false; counterfeit; bogus; fake; pseudo-; artificial; falsehood; untruthfulness; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of 偽).

Japanese

Shinjitai

偽

Kyūjitai

僞

Kanji

僞

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 偽)

  1. falsehood, lie
  2. fake, forgery

Readings

Korean

Hanja

僞 • (wi) (hangeul 위, revised wi, McCune–Reischauer wi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

僞: Hán Việt readings: ngụy/nguỵ[1]

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References

  1. ^ Trần (2004).
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