效仿
xiào fǎng · HSK 7
see 仿傚|仿效[fang3 xiao4]
🐒🪞 效 effect + 仿 copy = copy what works; monkey-see, monkey-do emulation
Both characters carry the imitate sense: 效 (effect, follow) plus 仿 (copy, model on). Stacked together they mean to emulate or model yourself on someone. Same word as 仿效 with the halves swapped.
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'.