诡
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(bound form) sly; crafty; (literary) weird; bizarre; (literary) contradictory; inconsistent
8 strokes
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How 诡 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
讠 (semantic, “speech”) + 危 (phonetic, wēi)
How to remember it
deceitful · Heisig RSH #2457
words + 危 danger
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 危
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 危 (wēi) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 危 sound component | wēi | dangerous, precarious; high |
| 跪 | guì | to kneel |
| 桅 | wéi | a ship's mast |
Words containing 诡
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 诡计多端 | guǐ jì duō duān | deceitful in many ways (idiom); wily and mischievous; full of craft and cunning |
| 阴谋诡计 | yīn móu guǐ jì | crafty plots and machinations (idiom) |
| 诡辩家 | guǐ biàn jiā | sophist; one who relies on specious arguments |
| 诡辩术 | guǐ biàn shù | specious arguments; sophistry |
| 诡计 | guǐ jì | trick; ruse; crafty scheme |
| 诡异 | guǐ yì | strange; weird |
| 奇诡 | qí guǐ | strange; queer; intriguing |
| 诡笑 | guǐ xiào | smirk; insincere smile |
| 诡谲多变 | guǐ jué duō biàn | (idiom) unpredictable; ever-changing |
| 波诡云谲 | bō guǐ yún jué | see 波譎雲詭|波谲云诡[bo1 jue2 yun2 gui3] |
| 波谲云诡 | bō jué yún guǐ | (idiom) ever-changing; unpredictable |
| 云谲波诡 | yún jué bō guǐ | see 波譎雲詭|波谲云诡[bo1 jue2 yun2 gui3] |
| 吊诡 | diào guǐ | bizarre; paradoxical; a paradox (from Daoist classic Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3]) |
| 诡辩 | guǐ biàn | specious arguments; sophistry |
| 诡秘 | guǐ mì | secretive; furtive; surreptitious |
| 诡诈 | guǐ zhà | sly; treacherous |
| 诡谲 | guǐ jué | (literary) strange; unpredictable |