Chinese symbol for “sly”
诡
guǐ
Traditional: 詭
(bound form) sly; crafty; (literary) weird; bizarre; (literary) contradictory; inconsistent
The closest CC-CEDICT match for sly is 诡 (guǐ), defined as: (bound form) sly; crafty; (literary) weird; bizarre; (literary) contradictory; inconsistent.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “sly”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 诡诈 (詭詐) | guǐ zhà | sly; treacherous |
| 狡猾 | jiǎo huá | crafty; cunning; sly |
| 鬼 | guǐ | disembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc |
| 猾 | huá | sly |
| 贼 (賊) | zéi | thief; robber; (bound form) traitor; subversive |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 诡.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 诡异 (詭異) | guǐ yì | strange; weird |
| 诡计 (詭計) | guǐ jì | trick; ruse |
| 诡辩 (詭辯) | guǐ biàn | specious arguments; sophistry |
| 诡计多端 (詭計多端) | guǐ jì duō duān | deceitful in many ways (idiom); wily and mischievous; full of craft and cunning |
| 诡谲 (詭譎) | guǐ jué | (literary) strange; unpredictable |
| 阴谋诡计 (陰謀詭計) | yīn móu guǐ jì | crafty plots and machinations (idiom) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “sly”.
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.