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模仿

mó fǎng

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

模仿 (mó fǎng) means "to imitate". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 模仿 means

1. to imitate
2. to copy
3. to emulate
4. to mimic
5. model

The characters in 模仿

• 模móto imitate; model; norm
• 仿fǎngto imitate; to copy

Example sentences

• 鹦鹉会模仿人的声音。
  Yīngwǔ huì mófǎng rén de shēngyīn.
  A parrot can mimic a person's voice.
• 他模仿了梵高的作品。
  Tā mófǎng le Fán Gāo de zuòpǐn.
  He imitated the works of Van Gogh.
• 鹦鹉懂得模仿人类说话。
  Parrots imitate human speech.
• 比起父母，儿童更喜欢模仿自己的同龄人。
  Bǐqǐ fùmǔ, értóng gèng xǐhuan mófǎng zìjǐ de tónglíngrén.
  Children imitate their peers rather than their parents.
• 错误是经常出现还是偶尔出现？错误是否能够模仿？
  Cuòwù shì jīngcháng chūxiàn háishi ǒu'ěr chūxiàn? cuòwù shìfǒu nénggòu mófǎng?
  Does the error occur regularly or sporadically? Is the error reproducible?
• 现在是 2025 年 8 月 3 日，露露岛。晚餐后，阳光下嫩绿的无花果，昨天腌制的甜醋，还有重新加热的阿尔弗雷多义面，我坐在阳台上，望着那棵针叶树。楼下静谧无声，街道空无一车，一片悠闲。我的冰镇青柠水在阳光下闪闪发光。最近，我常和那位法丹混血的 UFO 研究专家麦可聊天。我们谈论内心深处的事情：智慧型装置的迷醉，以及思维的衰退。他说，咖啡馆已经不再是咖啡馆了。人们忘记如何观察、如何驻足停留。我跟他讲起在日本的亚瑟，他会像僧侣凝视虚空一样，对着空白的墙壁发呆。最近，我让机器像诗人一样说话，它们真的做到了。它们模仿伊莉莎白时代的诗歌，以及塔加洛语民谣中那古老而忧伤的韵律。我沿着通往蒂姆霍顿咖啡店的小路采摘黑莓。我像个孩子似的喊道：「莫拉！」我的朋友莫拉，她血液里流着安地斯山脉的薄雾，她会笑的。今天，我买了黄柠檬。我本来想买青柠，但黄柠檬也可以。/ 黑莓的清晨 / 指尖残留无花果的痕迹 / 街道依然沉睡
  It's Lulu Island, 3 August 2025. After supper—green figs tender with sunlight, sweet vinegar from yesterday’s pickled jar, and reheated Alfredo—I sat on the balcony and watched the conifer. Stillness below, a street without cars, without haste. My lime water, iced, caught the light. Michael, the Franco-Danish ufologist, has been in my conversations lately. We speak of inner things: the trance of smart devices, the mind’s eye dwindling. He says cafés aren’t cafés anymore. People forget how to look, how to linger. I tell him of Arthur in Japan—how he'd stare into blank walls like a monk gazing at emptiness. Lately I ask machines to speak like poets, and they do. They mimic Elizabethan verses and the old wistful lilt of Tagalog ballads. I pick blackberries along the path to Tim Hortons. "¡Moras!" I shout like a child. My friend Mora, whose blood flows with Andes mist, would smile. Today, I bought lemons. I meant limes, but lemons are all right. / blackberry morning— / a fig's ghost on my fingers / and the street still sleeps

Words starting with 模仿

• 模仿品mó fǎng pǐnimitation product; counterfeit; knockoff

Sounds the same

Read mó fǎng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 摹仿variant of 模仿

Where 模仿 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Imitation, Vagueness & Pronoun (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 mó fǎng correctly.
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