guǐ

deceive

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
讠 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

is a component form of .

危 sound component

  Sound component

wēi

  

dangerous

Evolution

诡 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
诡 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
诡 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
诡 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

guǐ

deceive, cheat, defraud; sly; crafty; weird; bizarre; contradictory; inconsistent

Most common words with 诡
Freq.
Word
Meaning

诡异

strange

诡计

trick

sly

诡秘

secretive

阴谋诡计

crafty plots and machinations (idiom)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 9.8831% of movies

2029th most common character in movies

2578th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

Unicode

U+8BE1


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