诈
to cheat; to swindle; to pretend; to feign; to draw sb out; to try to extract information by deceit or bluff
7 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,801 U+8BC8
How 诈 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
讠 (semantic, “speech”) + 乍 (phonetic, zhà)
How to remember it
swindle · Heisig RSH #2195
words + saw
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 乍
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 乍 (zhà) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 乍 sound component | zhà | first time, for the first time, suddenly |
| 怎 | zěn | what? why? how? |
| 窄 | zhǎi | narrow, tight; narrow-minded |
| 咋 | zǎ | question-forming particle: why? what? how?; to bite; loud |
| 蚱 | zhà | grasshopper; locust, cicada |
| 昨 | zuó | yesterday; formerly, in the past |
| 柞 | zuò | beech, oak; evergreen; to clear away trees |
| 酢 | zuò | a toast to the host |
| 怍 | zuò | ashamed |
| 祚 | zuò | throne; happiness, blessings |
| 舴 | zé | dinghy, small boat |
| 苲 | zhǎ | hornwort |
| 迮 | zé | to press; hasty; cramped |
| 痄 | zhà | scrofulous swellings or lumps |
| 砟 | zhǎ | stone tablet; monument |
| 笮 | zé | boards that support roof tiles |
| 胙 | zuò | meat offered in sacrifice to one's ancestors |
| 阼 | zuò | the steps leading to the eastern door |
Words containing 诈
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 狂三诈四 | kuáng sān zhà sì | to deceive and swindle across the board (idiom) |
| 机诈 | jī zhà | deceitful |
| 电诈 | diàn zhà | wire fraud (abbr. for 電信詐騙|电信诈骗[dian4 xin4 zha4 pian4]) |
| 兵不厌诈 | bīng bù yàn zhà | (idiom) deception is justified in war |
| 诈语 | zhà yǔ | falsehood; lies; fabrication |
| 诈病 | zhà bìng | to feign illness; to malinger |
| 电信诈骗 | diàn xìn zhà piàn | wire fraud |
| 诈死 | zhà sǐ | to feign death; to fake death |
| 巧诈不如拙诚 | qiǎo zhà bù rú zhuō chéng | the unvarnished truth is better than a cunning ruse (idiom); honesty is the best policy |
| 诈取 | zhà qǔ | to swindle; to defraud |
| 诈领 | zhà lǐng | to defraud; to obtain by fraud; to embezzle; fraudulent |
| 敲诈勒索 | qiāo zhà lè suǒ | extortion and blackmail (idiom) |
| 网络欺诈 | wǎng luò qī zhà | phishing |
| 虚诈 | xū zhà | tricky and hypocritical |
| 欺诈者 | qī zhà zhě | deceiver |
| 险诈 | xiǎn zhà | sinister and deceitful |
| 尔虞我诈 | ěr yú wǒ zhà | lit. you hoodwink me and I cheat you (idiom); fig. each tries to outwit the other; deceit … |
| 尔诈我虞 | ěr zhà wǒ yú | see 爾虞我詐|尔虞我诈[er3 yu2 wo3 zha4] |
| 诈降 | zhà xiáng | feigned surrender |
| 诈骗罪 | zhà piàn zuì | fraud |