伪造品 (wěi zào pǐn) — counterfeit; forgery; fake merchandise

Definition

noun
counterfeitforgeryfake merchandise
Measure word · 件

Examples

  • 伪造品。
    Jǐng chá fā xiàn shì chǎng shàng yǒu dà liàng wěi zào pǐn.
    The police discovered a large amount of counterfeit goods in the market.
  • 伪造品，。
    Zhè fú huà qí shí shì yí jiàn wěi zào pǐn, bú shì zhēn pǐn.
    This painting is actually a forgery, not an authentic piece.
  • 伪造品，。
    Zhè xiē míng pái bāo dōu shì wěi zào pǐn, jià gé què hěn gāo.
    These brand-name bags are all counterfeits, yet the price is very high.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

伪造forge
伪wěifake造zàomake
偏正Modifier + head
品pǐnproduct

伪 and 造 together mean to make something falsely, and 品 names the resulting merchandise.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 偽; 伪 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
亻Written in full as人rénman
Sound part声符shēngfú
為
為wéi偽wěi
Same sound today

The modern 伪 comes from the traditional form 偽, where 亻 (man) marks the idea as about a person and 為 gives the sound and means “to make”; together they originally meant “artificial”.

Open 伪 →

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
辵辵chuòto walk
口口kǒu
Sound part声符shēngfú
屮
屮chè造zào
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

Its origin is unclear, but early forms of 造 include 辵 (to walk) and 口, with 屮 as a sound part, and mean go or arrive.

Open 造 →

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

品 repeats the same simple shape three times, representing various objects.

Open 品 →

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