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Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

1171 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 11

Meaning: falsehood, lie, deceive, pretend, counterfeit, forgery

Kunyomi: いつわ.る, にせ, いつわ.り

Onyomi: ギ, カ

Composition: 亻 為

偽

Radical

Radical: 人

Meaning: man, human

Reading: ひと

Frequency: 794

Alternative forms:

亻(alt radical position hen)𠆢(alt radical position kanmuri)

人

Examples

Onyomi Examples

偽 (ギ) falseness, falsehood

偽証 (ギショウ) false evidence, perjury, false testimony

真偽 (シンギ) truth or falsehood, genuineness, authenticity, veracity

詐偽 (サギ) lie, untruth, prevarication

Kunyomi Examples

偽る (いつわる) to lie, to pretend, to feign, to falsify, to deceive, to trick

偽 (にせ) imitation, fake, phony, counterfeit, forged, bogus, sham, pseudo-

偽物 (にせもの) spurious article, forgery, counterfeit, imitation, sham

偽り (いつわり) lie, falsehood, fiction, fabrication

偽り語る (いつわりかたる) to speak falsely

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