仿佛
fǎng fú · HSK 6
as if
仿 = imitate + 佛 = Buddha; together: as if, seemingly
仿 means to imitate or resemble; 佛 is Buddha but here just lends sound. The compound drifted to mean 'as if' or 'seemingly' — something resembles reality without quite being it.
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'.
佛 — person radical 亻 + 弗 (phonetic)
佛 is a phono-semantic compound: the 亻 radical signals 'person,' while 弗 supplies the sound. It was coined in early translations of Buddhist texts to transcribe the Sanskrit 'buddha,' so the character's meaning ('Buddha') comes from this loanword usage rather than its native parts.