mimic, aim (a gun) at, nominate, imitate
擬 centers on creating a likeness or representation: mimicking, imitating, or aiming at something as a target. The nomination sense extends this idea of putting someone forward as a candidate, like pointing at them.
擬 combines 扌 (hand) with 疑, which likely contributes both sound and the idea of comparing or resembling. The hand suggests an action of making something similar or aiming.
The hand radical 扌 beside 疑 (doubt) suggests using your hand to create a copy so close it makes you doubt which is real. That hand is mimicking, imitating, or aiming at the original.
For ギ, imagine a mimic using a hand puppet that looks like a key: key -> ギ, and the hand makes the puppet imitate the real key.
simulation of a person
imitation
-like; pseudo-; mock ...; imitation ...; in the style of ...
mimicry; mimesis; camouflage
imitative sound (in film, theatre, etc.); sound effect
pseudo-; quasi-
phenomime; mimetic word; word that mimics an action, condition, or manner that does not make a sound (e.g. "damp", "calmly")
imitation of classical styles
stage combat; staged fighting; fight choreography
(legal) fiction
ornamental railing top; bridge railing-post knob
zephyr lily
toilet device that plays a melody or flushing sound
pseudo-human
Hosta montana (species of plantain lily)
common grackle (Quiscalus quiscula)
Longman's beaked whale (Indopacetus pacificus); Indo-Pacific beaked whale; tropical bottlenose whale
Hosta sieboldii (species of plantain lily)
mock swallowtail butterfly moth (Epicopeia hainesii)
to censure; to criticize; to criticise; to rebuke; to defy; to disobey