仿

fǎng · HSK 7

seemingly

🪞 人 person + 方 direction = a person facing a direction, seemingly copying it

The left side 亻(person) stands next to 方 (direction/method). A person oriented the same way as another — seemingly identical, an imitation. Fǎng sounds like 'fang' — fangs look alike on both sides.

仿 — person radical 亻 + 方 fāng
A semantic-phonetic compound. The left side 亻 (person) gives the meaning, since imitating or modeling is something people do, while 方 supplies the sound 'fāng/fǎng'. The character has long meant 'to imitate, resemble, or copy after a model'.

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