What 伪 means
Fake, false, or feigned.
Classical Chinese also used it for artificial things. Earliest recognizable forms appear in Warring States and Qin manuscript traditions; the early Chinese character dictionary 《说文解字》 glosses it as “to deceive.”
The left part 人 means “person”; the right part 为 supplies the sound.
Blunt and negative; it labels something as false, forged, feigned, or illegitimate.
伪君子 is a direct insult for a hypocrite.
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Don't confuse it with
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Combination ideas
3Forge or fabricate.
Disguise or pretend.
Pseudoscience: a claim presented as science but not accepted as sound science.
Worth knowing
- The Japanese internet term 偽中国語 (伪中国语) describes Japanese text reduced to kanji; documented in 2009, it circulated online around 2016.
Questions people ask
1Why does 伪 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 伪
- Search it as
- 伪 · 偽 · wei · fake · false · counterfeit · forged · 伪造
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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HTML
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\4F2ACodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\4F2A";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E4%BC%AA
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.