诡 (guǐ) — deceitful, cunning, tricky; weird, eerie, uncanny
Definition
Bound morpheme (always attaches to another character) used in formal, literary Chinese. Carries both 'deceitful/cunning' (as in 诡计, 诡辩) and 'strange/eerie' (as in 诡异) senses.
bound form
deceitfulcunningtrickyweirdeerieuncanny
Examples
- ,。Tā shè le yí gè guǐ jì, xiǎng piàn suǒ yǒu rén de qián.He set up a trick to cheat everyone out of their money.
- ,。Nà ge dì fāng de fēn wéi shí fēn guǐ yì, ràng rén bù hán ér lì.The atmosphere of that place was extremely eerie, sending chills down one's spine.
- ,,。Zài biàn lùn zhōng, tā xǐ huan shǐ yòng guǐ biàn, hùn xiáo duì fāng de guān diǎn.In debates, he likes to use sophistry to confuse the other person's viewpoint.
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