zhà
cheat
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 乍 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 詐
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to defraud | ||
to cheat | ||
to rip off | ||
to cheat | ||
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 | |
Unicode | U+8A50 |
Shuowen | “詐,欺也。从言,乍聲。” |
Sources
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