"False" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 错误 | cuò wù | error / mistake / CL:個|个[ge4] / mistaken / false / wrong |   |
| 虚假 | xū jiǎ | false / phony / pretense | |
| 虚伪 | xū wěi | false / hypocritical / artificial / sham | |
| 伪劣 | wěi liè | inferior / false | |
| 违心 | wéi xīn | false / untrue to one's convictions / against one's will / disloyal | |
| 虚 |  xū | emptiness / void / abstract theory or guiding principles / empty or unoccupied / diffident or timid / false / humble or modest / (of health) weak / virtual / in vain | |
| 赝 | yàn | false | |
| 无信义 | wú xìn yì | in bad faith / false / perfidious | |
| 虚谎 | xū huǎng | false | |
| 真假 | zhēn jiǎ | genuine or fake / true or false | |
| 打假 | dǎ jiǎ | to fight counterfeiting / to expose as false / to denounce sb's lies | |
| 陷害 | xiàn hài | to entrap / to set up / to frame (up) / to make false charges against | |
| 假象 | jiǎ xiàng | false appearance / facade | |
| 鬼话 | guǐ huà | lie / false words / nonsense / CL:篇[pian1] | |
| 旗号 | qí hào | military banner / flag signal / (fig.) banner (i.e. false pretenses) | |
| 虚实 | xū shí | what is true and what is false / (to get to know) the real situation | |
| 虚名 | xū míng | false reputation | |
| 诬陷 | wū xiàn | to entrap / to frame / to plant false evidence against sb | |
| 假借 | jiǎ jiè | to make use of / to use sth as pretext / under false pretenses / under the guise of / masquerading as / lenient / tolerant / loan character (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 / of forming Chinese characters) / character acquiring meanings by phonetic association / also called phonetic loan | |
| 虚惊 | xū jīng | false alarm / panic rumor / CL:場|场[chang2] | |
| 失实 | shī shí | to give a false picture of the situation | |
| 假证 | jiǎ zhèng | false testimony | |
| 假名 | jiǎ míng | false name / pseudonym / alias / pen name / the Japanese kana scripts / hiragana 平假名[ping2 jia3 ming2] and katakana 片假名[pian4 jia3 ming2] | |
| 假牙 | jiǎ yá | false teeth / dentures | |
| 强词夺理 | qiǎng cí duó lǐ | to twist words and force logic (idiom) / sophistry / loud rhetoric making up for fallacious argument / shoving false arguments down people's throats | |
| 虚言 | xū yán | empty words / false words | |
| 假面具 | jiǎ miàn jù | mask / fig. false façade / deceptive front | |
| 谗言 | chán yán | slander / slanderous report / calumny / false charge | |
| 含冤 | hán yuān | wronged / to suffer false accusations | |
| 讹诈 | é zhà | to extort under false pretenses / to blackmail / to bluff / to defraud | |
| 冒名顶替 | mào míng dǐng tì | to assume sb's name and take his place (idiom) / to impersonate / to pose under a false name | |
| 刺槐 | cì huái | false acacia / Robinia pseudoacacia | |
| 正误 | zhèng wù | true or false? / correct or incorrect / to correct errors (in a document) | |
| 抢跑 | qiǎng pǎo | to jump the gun / to make a false start | |
| 妄称 | wàng chēng | to make a false and unwarranted declaration | |
| 镶牙 | xiāng yá | to have a false tooth set in / denture | |
| 含血喷人 | hán xuè pēn rén | to make false accusations against sb (idiom) | |
| 构陷 | gòu xiàn | to frame / to bring false charges against | |
| 谰 | lán | to make a false charge | |
| 虚情假意 | xū qíng jiǎ yì | false friendship / hypocritical show of affection | |
| 一念之差 | yī niàn zhī chā | momentary slip / false step / ill-considered action | |
| 蛊惑人心 | gǔ huò rén xīn | to stir up public sentiment by false statements (idiom) / to resort to demagogy | |
| 訹 | xù | to beguile with false stories | |
| 树上开花 | shù shàng kāi huā | to deck the tree with false blossoms / to make something of no value appear valuable (idiom) | |
| 真伪莫辨 | zhēn wěi mò biàn | can't judge true or false (idiom) / unable to distinguish the genuine from the fake / not to know whether to believe (what one reads in the news) | |
| 开弓不放箭 | kāi gōng bù fàng jiàn | lit. to draw the bow without shooting the arrow (idiom) / fig. to bluff / to be all talk and no action / false bravado | |
| 半真半假 | bàn zhēn bàn jiǎ | (idiom) half true and half false | |
| 假否定句 | jiǎ fǒu dìng jù | false negative | |
| 假肯定句 | jiǎ kěn dìng jù | false affirmative | |
| 伪顶 | wěi dǐng | false roof | |
| 虚警 | xū jǐng | false alert | |
| 假善人 | jiǎ shàn rén | false compassion / bogus charity | |
| 假报告 | jiǎ bào gào | false report / forgery / fabricated declaration (e.g. income tax return) | |
| 假招子 | jiǎ zhāo zi | to put on airs / to adopt a false attitude | |
| 假拱 | jiǎ gǒng | blind arch / false arch | |
| 假腿 | jiǎ tuǐ | false leg | |
| 假藉 | jiǎ jiè | to use sth as pretext / under false pretenses / under the guise of / masquerading as | |
| 假证件 | jiǎ zhèng jiàn | false documents | |
| 僞 | wěi | variant of 偽|伪, false / fake / forged / bogus | |
| 冤假错案 | yuān jiǎ cuò àn | unjust, fake and false charges (in a legal case) | |
| 反咬一口 | fǎn yǎo yī kǒu | to make a false countercharge | |
| 李鬼 | Lǐ Guǐ | false hero (who pretends to be 李逵[Li3 Kui2]) / a fake | |
| 毛洋槐 | máo yáng huái | rose acacia (Robinia hispida, a false acacia) | |
| 浣雪 | huàn xuě | to cleanse oneself of false accusations | |
| 耳听为虚，眼见为实 | ěr tīng wéi xū , yǎn jiàn wéi shí | Take what you hear to be false, only believe it when you see it (idiom). Don't believe what people tell you until you see if for yourself. / It ain't necessarily so. | |
| 虚伪类真 | xū wěi lèi zhēn | false but apparently real | |
| 谬见 | miù jiàn | erroneous views / false idea / false opinion | |
| 违心之言 | wéi xīn zhī yán | false assertion / speech against one's own convictions | |
| 证伪 | zhèng wěi | to disprove / to confirm (sth) to be false | |
| 假阳性 | false positive | | |
| 假阴性 | false negative | | |
| 真假证件档桉系统 | False and Authentic Documents | | |
| 东移假定值 | false easting | | |
| 北移假定值 | false northing | | |
| 非法逮捕 | false arrest | | |
| 反诬 | fǎn wū | to make a false countercharge | |
| 查水表 | chá shuǐ biǎo | (Internet slang) (of the police) to ask to be let in on the pretext of checking the water meter / to barge into people's home on false pretences | |
| 冥钞 | míng chāo | false paper money burned as an offering to the dead | |
| 冥币 | míng bì | false paper money burned as an offering to the dead | |
| 邪知邪见 | xié zhī xié jiàn | false wisdom and erroneous views (Buddhism) | |
| 假仙 | jiǎ xiān | (Tw) to pretend / to put on a false front / (Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [ké-sian]) | |
| 伪阴性 | wěi yīn xìng | false negative | |
| 假阴性 | jiǎ yīn xìng | false negative | |
| 假阳性 | jiǎ yáng xìng | false positive | |
| 伪阳性 | wěi yáng xìng | false positive | |
| 桧木 | guì mù | false cypress (genus Chamaecyparis) | |
| 伪命题 | wěi mìng tí | false proposition / fundamentally flawed notion / (in popular usage, can also refer to anything based on a flawed notion, such as a false dichotomy or a question that starts with a false premise) | |
