似是而非 Save Sign in to save words On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. sìshìérfēi ㄙˋ ㄕˋ ㄦˊ ㄈㄟ apparently right but actually wrong specious (idiom) Character by character 似(sì)seem 是(shì)be 而(ér)and 非(fēi)not be A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT