Jisho

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14 strokes
Radical:
mouth, opening
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Kun reading compounds

  • 嘘 【うそ】 lie, fib, falsehood, untruth, mistake, error, unwise move, bad decision, no way!, unbelievable!, really?!
  • 嘘つき 【うそつき】 liar, fibber, lying
  • 罪のない嘘 【つみのないうそ】 white lie, harmless lie, fib
  • 大嘘 【おおうそ】 outrageous lie, outright lie

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xu1, shi1
Korean:
heo

Spanish

  • mentira
  • falsedad

Portuguese

French

993 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1905 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
2437 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
832 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4206X Morohashi
886 New Nelson (John Haig)
2167 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2286 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3774 2001 Kanji
3d11.7 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-11 SKIP code
6101.7 Four corner code
1-17-19 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5618 Unicode hex code

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