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仿佛

fǎng fú

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

仿佛 (fǎng fú) means "as if, seems like". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 仿佛 means

1. to seem; as if; seemingly
2. alike; similar

Other readings

仿佛 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• fǎng fúto seem; as if; seemingly; alike; similar

The characters in 仿佛

• 仿fǎngto imitate; to copy
• 佛fúused in 仿佛

Example sentences

• 那一刻，时间仿佛静止了。
  Nà yī kè, shíjiān fǎngfú jìngzhǐ le.
  At that moment, time seemed to be standing still.
• 那一瞬间，仿佛一切都停止了。
  Nà yīshùnjiān, fǎngfú yīqiè dōu tíngzhǐ le.
  In just a moment, it seemed like everything stopped.
• 他讲起那场事故，讲得仿佛他亲眼所见。
  Tā jiǎng qǐ nà chǎng shìgù, jiǎng de fǎngfú tā qīnyǎn suǒjiàn.
  He recounted the accident to me as if he had seen it with his own eyes.
• 当我们回眸青春，仿佛有一种说不出的痛。
  When we look back at our youth, there seems to be an indescribable pain.
• 在他们双目交接的瞬间，世界仿佛静止了。
  When their eyes met, it was as if the world stood still.
• 一年过去了，但仿佛我们昨天还见过面似的。
  A year has passed, but it's as if we'd seen each other only yesterday.

Where 仿佛 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Discourse Particles & Adverbs (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read fǎng fú correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.