Chinese symbol for “deception”
诈欺
zhà qī
Traditional: 詐欺
fraud; deception
The closest CC-CEDICT match for deception is 诈欺 (zhà qī), defined as: fraud; deception.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “deception”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 诈欺.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 诈骗 (詐騙) | zhà piàn | to defraud; to swindle |
| 欺诈 (欺詐) | qī zhà | to cheat |
| 敲诈 (敲詐) | qiāo zhà | to rip off; to extort (money) |
| 狡诈 (狡詐) | jiǎo zhà | crafty; cunning |
| 奸诈 (奸詐) | jiān zhà | treachery; devious |
| 讹诈 (訛詐) | é zhà | to extort under false pretenses; to blackmail |
| 欺骗 (欺騙) | qī piàn | to deceive; to cheat |
| 欺负 (欺負) | qī fu | to bully |
See also: Japanese symbol for “deception”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.