I was reading the description of a character and they referred to her
personality as “nise tsundere".

「偽ツンデレ」

I understand basically what "tsundere" means. The translation came up as fake
tsundere. I found a this term on a few sites, but I don't understand the
meaning really. Can someone explain?
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What does “nise tsundere “ mean?
This may be the first time an answer to a question on this site was "the
automatic translation got it right". However, this time the automatic
translation did get it right.

`偽` is a fairly common prefix that can be attached to other words to mean a
fake version of that thing, although it has slightly broader applications than
the English word `fake` and can also mean something like `pseudo`. For
example, [偽医療](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quackery) is the word for fake
medicine while [偽中国語](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-Chinese) is a type
of Japanese internet slang that closely resembles Chinese.

While it is hard to know the exact intent of the speaker without more context,
`偽ツンデレ` almost certainly refers to someone who appears to be `ツンデレ` but in
fact is not. This could imply that the person was intentionally pretending, or
not.
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