仿佛 fǎngfú▶ seolah-olah

Stroke order

仿佛 is written in 13 strokes across 2 characters.

• 仿 — 6 strokes
• 佛 — 7 strokes

Senses

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

Related words

• 模仿tiru

仿佛 is pronounced fǎngfú and means “seolah-olah”. You will meet it in HSK 5, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 仿佛 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.