Definition
诈 covers two related but distinct senses: cheating/swindling (often in financial or formal contexts) and feigning/pretending (putting on a false appearance). In modern Chinese it frequently appears in compounds like 诈骗 (fraud), 欺诈 (deceit), 诈死 (feign death), and 诈降 (feign surrender). As an advanced verb, it's more formal and literary than the everyday 骗 (piàn), which is broader.
v.
to swindleto cheatto defraudto feignto pretendto bluff
Examples
- 诈。Nà ge piànzi zhà le tā yí dà bǐ qián.That swindler cheated him out of a large sum of money.
- 诈，。Tā zhà chēng zìjǐ shì jìzhě, xiǎng hùn jìn huìchǎng.He falsely claimed to be a journalist, trying to sneak into the venue.
- 诈。Jǐ jù huà nǐ jiù bǎ tā xīn li de xiǎngfǎ zhà chūlai le.With just a few sentences you managed to draw out his true thoughts.
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