Kanji1 / 17
擬 kanji
mimic, aim (a gun) at, nominate, imitate
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- Strokes
- 17
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ギ
Kun readings
まがいもどき
Words with 擬
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —模擬Popularimitation
- —模擬試験Popularmock exam; practice exam; practice test
- —擬pseudo-; quasi-
- —擬音imitative sound (in film, theatre, etc.); sound effect
- —擬革imitation leather
- —擬古imitation of classical styles
- —擬死feigning death; playing possum; tonic immobility; thanatosis; apparent death
- —擬人simulation of a person
- —擬制(legal) fiction
- —擬勢bluff; deceiving an enemy
- —擬製imitation; forgery; copy
- —擬態mimicry; mimesis; camouflage
- —擬毛imitation wool
- —擬餌lure; artificial bait
- —擬娩couvade (custom in which a male acts out the physical process of his own child being born)
- —擬すto imitate; to copy; to mimic; to enter someone as a candidate; to press (e.g. a weapon against someone's back); to compare; to liken
- —擬闘stage combat; staged fighting; fight choreography
- —擬革紙imitation leather
- —擬古文classical style
- —擬人化personification; anthropomorphization