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伪托

偽托
wěituō
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to falsely attribute (a work to someone else)
  2. 2 to forge a work in another's name
  3. 3 pseudepigrapha

Examples

这本古书可能是后人伪托孔子之名写的。
Zhè běn gǔshū kěnéng shì hòu rén wěituō Kǒngzǐ zhī míng xiě de.
This ancient text may have been forged by later writers in Confucius's name.
学者怀疑这些诗是伪托的作品。
Xuézhě huáiyí zhè xiē shī shì wěituō de zuòpǐn.
Scholars suspect these poems are pseudepigraphic.

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Specialist textual-criticism term — used when discussing classical Chinese works of disputed authorship (托名于古人, attributing one's work to an ancient sage). The Western parallel is the Greek term 'pseudepigrapha'.

Stroke Order

伪 wěi
托 tuō