Chinese symbol for “hypocritical”
伪善
wěi shàn
Traditional: 偽善
hypocritical
The closest CC-CEDICT match for hypocritical is 伪善 (wěi shàn), defined as: hypocritical.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “hypocritical”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 伪善.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 伪造 (偽造) | wěi zào | to forge; to fake |
| 虚伪 (虛偽) | xū wěi | false; hypocritical |
| 伪装 (偽裝) | wěi zhuāng | to pretend to be (asleep etc); to disguise oneself as |
| 真伪 (真偽) | zhēn wěi | true or bogus; authenticity |
| 伪君子 (偽君子) | wěi jūn zǐ | hypocrite |
| 改善 | gǎi shàn | to make better; to improve |
| 完善 | wán shàn | (of systems, facilities etc) comprehensive; well-developed |
| 慈善 | cí shàn | benevolent; charitable |
See also: Japanese symbol for “hypocritical”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.