伪

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false; fake; forged; bogus; (prefix) pseudo-; Taiwan pr. [wei4]

Formation & memory

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

亻 meaning + 为 sound ( wèi )

Components 亻为

bogus · Heisig RSH #797

人 person + 为 act

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
伪基百科	Wěi jī bǎi kē	Uncyclopedia (satirical website parodying Wikipedia)
伪阳性	wěi yáng xìng	false positive
伪科学	wěi kē xué	pseudoscience
伪阴性	wěi yīn xìng	false negative
伪造者	wěi zào zhě	forger
虚伪类真	xū wěi lèi zhēn	false but apparently real
伪代码	wěi dài mǎ	pseudocode
伪善者	wěi shàn zhě	hypocrite
伪造品	wěi zào pǐn	counterfeit object; forgery; fake
伪纪录片	wěi jì lù piàn	mockumentary
伪君子	wěi jūn zǐ	hypocrite
伪命题	wěi mìng tí	false proposition; fundamentally flawed notion; (in popular usage, can also refer to anyth…
伪经	wěi jīng	forged scriptures; bogus classic; pseudepigrapha; apocrypha
伪书	wěi shū	forged book; book of dubious authenticity; misattributed book; Apocrypha
伪军	wěi jūn	puppet army
伪装	wěi zhuāng	to pretend to be (asleep etc); to disguise oneself as; pretense; disguise; (military) to c…
伪朝	wěi cháo	illegitimate dynasty; pretender dynasty
伪证	wěi zhèng	perjury
证伪	zhèng wěi	to disprove; to confirm (sth) to be false
伪托	wěi tuō	faking a modern object as an ancient one

Characters sharing the sound component 为 — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
为 sound part	wèi	to do, to act; to handle, to govern; to be
沩	guī	a river in Shanxi province