模仿
mófǎng · HSK 5
imitate
🪞 模 = mold/pattern + 仿 = resemble → copy the pattern
模 (mó) means model or mold; 仿 (fǎng) means to resemble or follow. Together they mean to imitate — literally to resemble the pattern. The 亻 radical in 仿 marks a person doing the resembling.
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'.