僞

See also: 偽 and 伪

僞 U+50DE, 僞 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-50DE ← 僝 [U+50DD] CJK Unified Ideographs 僟 → [U+50DF]

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

• 𧓯

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 (“person”) + phonetic 爲 (OC *ɢʷal, *ɢʷal, *ɢʷals).

Definitions

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

Japanese

Shinjitai	偽
Kyūjitai	僞

Kanji

僞

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 偽)

1. falsehood, lie
2. fake, forgery

Readings

• Go-on: が (ga)^{←ぐわ (gwa, historical)}、ぎ (gi)^{←ぎ (gi, historical)←ぐゐ (gwi, ancient)}
• Kan-on: が (ga)^{←ぐわ (gwa, historical)}、ぎ (gi)^{←ぎ (gi, historical)←ぐゐ (gwi, ancient)}
• Kan’yō-on: か (ka)^{←くわ (kwa, historical)}
• Kun: いつわる (itsuwaru, 僞る)^{←いつはる (itufaru, 僞る, historical)}、にせ (nise, 僞)

Korean

Hanja

僞 (eum 위 (wi))

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Vietnamese

Han character

僞: Hán Việt readings: ngụy/nguỵ

1. chữ Hán form of ngụy/nguỵ (“fake”)