jué

cunning

A bright  wit  also provides the pronunciation

Components
言 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

矞 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

  

bore with awl

Evolution

譎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
譎 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

jué

cunning, crafty, sly, wily; deceitful

Most common words with 譎
Freq.
Word
Meaning

诡谲

weird

deceitful

奇谲

sly

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[C.q]ʷˤi[t]

kwet

jué

treacherous; deceive


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4819th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

Unicode

U+8B4E

Shuowen

“譎,權詐也。益梁曰:‘謬欺天下曰譎。’从言,矞聲。”


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