Chinese Character Wiki

詐

zhà

cheat

Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 乍 represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

乍 sound component

乍  Sound component

zhà

  

suddenly

Evolution

詐 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
詐 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
詐 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
詐 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

诈 (詐) 

zhà

cheat, defraud, swindle; trick; to feign; to cheat; to swindle; to pretend; to draw sb out; to try to extract information by deceit or bluff

Most common words with 詐
Freq.
Word
Meaning

诈骗

to defraud

欺诈

to cheat

敲诈

to rip off

诈

to cheat

敲诈勒索

extortion and blackmail (idiom)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]ˤrak-s

tsraeH

zhà

treacherous


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 9.9792% of movies

1965th most common character in movies

2403rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

诈

Unicode

U+8A50

Shuowen

“詐，欺也。从言，乍聲。”


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