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HSK
vacation
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *假* | 假* | *假
fake / false / artificial / to borrow / if / suppose
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *假* | 假* | *假
variant of / to borrow
HSK 2
if
HSK 4
a holiday; a day off
HSK 6
to assume / to suppose / supposed / so-called / assumption / hypothesis
HSK 7-9
to impersonate / to pose as (someone else) / to counterfeit / to palm off (a fake as a genuine)
HSK 7-9
if / in case / suppose / given ...
HSK 7-9
to suppose / to presume / to assume / supposing that ... / if / hypothesis / conjecture
HSK 7-9
to feign / to pretend
HSK 7-9
rock garden / rockery
pseudo-
blind arch / false arch
bogus / ersatz / fake / mock / phony
mask
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *假* | 假* | *假
used in 假掰
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *假* | 假* | *假
vacation
(idiom) to get one's own task done by sb else
hypothesis
demure / prudish / hypocritical
subjunctive
phony mercy / sham benevolence / crocodile tears
insincerity; hypocrisy / insincerely
wig
parole
to impersonate / to act the part of sb / to disguise oneself as sb else
tomboy
counterfeit article / fake / dummy / simulacrum
false name / pseudonym / alias / pen name / the Japanese kana scripts / hiragana 平假名 and katakana 片假名
(soccer) diving / simulation / flopping
to make use of / to use sth as pretext / under false pretenses / under the guise of / masquerading as / lenient / tolerant / loan character (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) / character acquiring meanings by phonetic association / also called phonetic loan
falsetto (in opera)
imaginary / virtual / to imagine / hypothesis
fake drugs
false appearance / facade
(of an expression of sympathy) insincere; phony
false teeth / dentures
fraudulent financial accounts; cooked books
artificial limb; prosthetic limb
suspended animation / feigned death / to play dead
to doze / to take a nap / nodding off to sleep
false testimony
fabricated legal case / frame-up
counterfeit money
to lip-sync (singing)
to get (sb else) to perform the task; to rely on (sb else) to do it / prosthetic hand
leave of absence request (from work or school) / excuse note / CL: 張|张
official authority used for private interests (idiom); to attain private ends by abusing public position
match-fixing; a fixed match
to pose as sb / to act a part / imposture
category of leave (maternity leave, sick leave etc)
falsetto (cf. 真聲|真声, natural or modal voice)
via / by way of
to pretend / to use a pretext / to make sth up / to pass oneself off as sb else / to make use of
a lie / untrue statement / misstatement
to use as a venue (e.g. use {a restaurant} as the venue {for a farewell party})
Eryngium foetidum
to feign / to pretend
dummy (for crash testing, displaying clothes etc)
falsetto, same as 假聲|假声
variant of 假托
if
mask / fig. false façade / deceptive front
if / supposing that / acting county magistrate
to claim falsely
artificial eye / glass eye
(Tw) affected; pretentious; to put on a display of histrionics (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [ké-pai])
(Tw) to pretend; to put on a false front (from Taiwanese 假仙, Tai-lo pr. [ké-sian])
adopted son / stepson
false leg
masked ball / masquerade
acting magistrate / temporary official (in former times)
lit. if one is fake, I shall compensate you for ten of them / fig. (of goods) 100% genuine
rigged scale (used to deceive customers by displaying incorrect weight)
opposing force (in war games); hypothetical enemy (in strategic studies)
false report / forgery / fabricated declaration (e.g. income tax return)
pseudomyopia
lit. a short-cut to crush Guo (idiom); fig. to connive with sb to damage a third party, then turn on the partner
false documents
to obtain safe passage to conquer the State of Guo / to borrow the resources of an ally to attack a common enemy (idiom)
fiction comes true / play-acting that turns into reality
loan character (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) / character acquiring meanings by phonetic association / also called phonetic loan
the meaning of a phonetic loan character 假借字 acquired from a similar-sounding word (e.g. originally meant "beard" but acquired the meaning "and")
counterfeit object / fake
improper fraction (with numerator ≥ denominator, e.g. seven fifths) / see also: proper fraction 真分數|真分数 and mixed number 帶分數|带分数
fake move or pass (sports) / feint
to get one's own task done by sb else
to put on airs / to adopt a false attitude
false negative
an effigy
hypocrisy / pretended righteousness
cheap quality counterfeit (goods) / low-quality commodities
false compassion / bogus charity
falsetto (in opera)
empty words / bogus speech
(derog.) wannabe foreigner, a Chinese person who apes the ways of foreigners
aril (botany)
false affirmative
if / supposing / in case
hypothetical

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