Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
Variants:
falsehood, lie, deceive, pretend, counterfeit, forgery
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1171 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 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

Kun reading compounds

  • 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

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wei4
Korean:
wi

Spanish

  • falsedad
  • mentira
  • engañar
  • fingir
  • mentir
  • engaño

Portuguese

  • falsidade
  • mentira
  • enganar
  • fingir
  • falsificação

French

  • faux
  • mensonge
  • berner
  • prétendre
  • imitation
  • contrefaçon
1135 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1639 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
510 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1157 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1061 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1485 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1582 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1428 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
116 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
149 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
99 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
114 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1938 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
927P Morohashi
131 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
276 New Nelson (John Haig)
1919 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2068 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1408 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2150 2001 Kanji
2a9.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-9 SKIP code
2422.7 Four corner code
1-21-22 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
507d Unicode hex code

10 strokes (also 9)
Radical:
walk 辵 (辶, ⻌, ⻍)
Parts:
create, make, structure, physique
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N2
429 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 造語 【ゾウゴ】 coinage, invention of a new word, coined word
  • 造形 【ゾウケイ】 molding, moulding, shaping, forming, modelling (i.e. plastic arts), modeling
  • 変造 【ヘンゾウ】 alteration, defacement, debasement, falsification, forgery
  • 捏造 【ネツゾウ】 fabrication, forgery, falsehood, hoax

Kun reading compounds

  • 作る 【つくる】 to make, to produce, to manufacture, to build, to construct, to prepare (food), to brew (alcohol), to raise, to grow, to cultivate, to train, to till, to draw up (a document), to make out, to prepare, to write, to create (an artistic work, etc.), to compose, to coin (a phrase), to organize, to organise, to establish, to found, to have (a child), to make up (one's face, etc.), to fabricate (an excuse, etc.), to give a (false) appearance, to feign (a smile, etc.), to put on a show of emotion, to form (a line, etc.), to set (a record), to commit (a sin, etc.)
  • 作り 【つくり】 making, producing, manufacturing, building, construction, make, structure, appearance (attire, make-up, etc.), build, physique, sashimi, forced (smile, etc.)
  • 作り上げる 【つくりあげる】 to build up, to complete, to construct, to create, to put together, to make up, to fabricate, to invent, to cook up
  • 塚造 【つかつくり】 megapode (any bird of family Megapodiidae, incl. brush turkeys and mallee fowl), mound builder

Readings

Japanese names:
ずくり、 づくり、 み
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zao4
Korean:
jo

Spanish

  • edificio
  • crear
  • construir

Portuguese

  • criar
  • fazer
  • estrutura
  • psique

French

  • créer
  • fabriquer
  • structure
  • physique
  • maquillage
662 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
761 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
739 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
460 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4701 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
551 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
959 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1236 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
691 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
704 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
965 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
692 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3856 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1983 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2679 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
287 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
38898P Morohashi
3110 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6061 New Nelson (John Haig)
281 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
299 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
441 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
717 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2477 2001 Kanji
2q7.11 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-7 SKIP code
3430.6 Four corner code
1-34-04 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9020 Unicode hex code