诈
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to cheat; to swindle; to pretend; to feign; to draw sb out; to try to extract information by deceit or bluff
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 言 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 詐
- Common rank
- #1,801
- Unicode
- U+8BC8
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
swindle · Heisig RSH #2195
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Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 诈
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 狂三诈四 | to deceive and swindle across the board (idiom) | |
| 机诈 | deceitful | |
| 电诈 | wire fraud (abbr. for 電信詐騙|电信诈骗[dian4 xin4 zha4 pian4]) | |
| 兵不厌诈 | (idiom) deception is justified in war | |
| 诈语 | falsehood; lies; fabrication | |
| 诈病 | to feign illness; to malinger | |
| 电信诈骗 | wire fraud | |
| 诈死 | to feign death; to fake death | |
| 巧诈不如拙诚 | the unvarnished truth is better than a cunning ruse (idiom); honesty is the best policy | |
| 诈取 | to swindle; to defraud | |
| 诈领 | to defraud; to obtain by fraud; to embezzle; fraudulent | |
| 敲诈勒索 | extortion and blackmail (idiom) | |
| 网络欺诈 | phishing | |
| 虚诈 | tricky and hypocritical | |
| 欺诈者 | deceiver | |
| 险诈 | sinister and deceitful | |
| 尔虞我诈 | lit. you hoodwink me and I cheat you (idiom); fig. each tries to outwit the other; deceit … | |
| 尔诈我虞 | see 爾虞我詐|尔虞我诈[er3 yu2 wo3 zha4] | |
| 诈降 | feigned surrender | |
| 诈骗罪 | fraud |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 乍 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 乍 sound part | first time, for the first time, suddenly | |
| 怎 | what? why? how? | |
| 窄 | narrow, tight; narrow-minded | |
| 咋 | question-forming particle: why? what? how?; to bite; loud | |
| 蚱 | grasshopper; locust, cicada | |
| 昨 | yesterday; formerly, in the past | |
| 柞 | beech, oak; evergreen; to clear away trees | |
| 酢 | a toast to the host | |
| 怍 | ashamed | |
| 祚 | throne; happiness, blessings | |
| 舴 | dinghy, small boat | |
| 苲 | hornwort | |
| 迮 | to press; hasty; cramped | |
| 痄 | scrofulous swellings or lumps | |
| 砟 | stone tablet; monument | |
| 笮 | boards that support roof tiles | |
| 胙 | meat offered in sacrifice to one's ancestors | |
| 阼 | the steps leading to the eastern door |