guǐ
deceive
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 危 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 詭
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
strange | ||
trick | ||
sly | ||
secretive | ||
crafty plots and machinations (idiom) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k](r)ojʔ | kjweX | guǐ | perverse |
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 | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8A6D |
Shuowen | “詭，責也。从言，危聲。” |
Sources
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