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仿

fǎng

imitate

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 方 represents the sound. Simplified form of 彷.

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

方 sound component

方  Sound component

fāng

  

square

Evolution

仿 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
仿 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
仿 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
仿 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
仿 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

仿  

fǎng

imitate, copy; as if; to imitate; to copy

仿 (倣) 

fǎng

variant of 仿[fǎng]

仿 (彷) 

fǎng

seemingly

Most common words with 仿
Freq.
Word
Meaning

模仿

to imitate

仿佛

to seem

仿

to copy

仿真

to emulate

效仿

to copy

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 14.9768% of movies

1695th most common character in movies

1259th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+4EFF

Shuowen

“仿，相似也。从人，方聲。，籀文仿从丙。”


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