First opened Monday, January 21, 2013
模倣
もほう
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
imitation, copying
In mohō, 模 is a daiyōji replacing 摸.
Taken apart
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Wiktionary's text doesn't split this word, so each part is one of its kanji (with the okurigana written after it), with the reading and the dictionary meaning KANJIDIC2 gives that character — a word doesn't always use every sense of its kanji.
In a sentence
全ての子供には、尊敬し模倣する人が必要だ。
Every child needs someone to look up to and copy.
特別な技能を必要とする分野を除けば、彼らは彼のスタイルをあらゆる点で模倣した。
They have imitated his style in all areas except those that require special skill.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “模 is a daiyōji replacing 摸.”
Source: Wiktionary: 模倣 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.