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
Radical: 人
Meaning: man, human
Reading: ひと
Frequency: 794
Alternative forms:
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
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