欺
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to take unfair advantage of; to deceive; to cheat
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 欠 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 欺
- Common rank
- #1,850
- Unicode
- U+6B3A
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 欺
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 打狗欺主 | to beat a dog and bully its owner; fig. to humiliate sb indirectly by bullying a subordina… | |
| 老少无欺 | cheating neither old nor young; treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously; Our… | |
| 欺以其方 | deceived by a pretense of reason (idiom) | |
| 雷公打豆腐，拣软的欺 | the God of Thunder strikes bean curd, a bully picks the weakest person; to pick on an easy… | |
| 欺行霸市 | (idiom) to dominate the market through unfair, coercive or monopolistic practices | |
| 欺世盗名 | (idiom) to fool the world and usurp a good name | |
| 自欺欺人 | to deceive others and to deceive oneself; to believe one's own lies | |
| 欺生 | to cheat strangers; to bully strangers; (of domesticated animals) to be rebellious with un… | |
| 自欺 | to deceive oneself | |
| 朋友妻不可欺 | you should not covet your friend's wife (idiom) | |
| 可欺 | gullible; easily bullied; weak | |
| 欺人太甚 | (idiom) to bully intolerably | |
| 欺男霸女 | to oppress the people; to act tyrannically | |
| 仗势欺人 | to take advantage of one's position to bully people (idiom); to kick people around | |
| 欺压 | to bully; to push around | |
| 欺蒙 | to deceive; to dupe | |
| 瞒上欺下 | to deceive one's superiors and bully one's subordinates (idiom) | |
| 网络欺诈 | phishing | |
| 欺诈者 | deceiver | |
| 欺负 | to bully |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 其 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 其 sound part | his, her, its, their; that | |
| 基 | foundation, base | |
| 期 | a period of time; date, time; phase | |
| 旗 | banner, flag, streamer | |
| 棋 | chess; any strategy game | |
| 淇 | a river in Henan province | |
| 箕 | sieve; dust pan; garbage bag | |
| 琪 | fine jade | |
| 麒 | mythical unicorn | |
| 祺 | good luck, good fortune | |
| 萁 | pulses, legumes | |
| 綦 | dark gray; variegated; superlative | |
| 骐 | piebald horse; excellent horse | |
| 蜞 | lightfoot crab; worm, leech | |
| 鲯 | ray-finned fish; Coryphaena hippurus |