Chinese symbol for “trickery”
权谋
quán móu
Traditional: 權謀
trickery; tactics
The closest CC-CEDICT match for trickery is 权谋 (quán móu), defined as: trickery; tactics.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “trickery”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 手腕 | shǒu wàn | wrist; trickery |
| 花点子 (花點子) | huā diǎn zi | trickery; scam |
| 西洋镜 (西洋鏡) | xī yáng jìng | (old) peep show; (fig.) hanky-panky |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 权谋.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 权利 (權利) | quán lì | right (i.e. an entitlement to sth); (classical) power and wealth |
| 权力 (權力) | quán lì | power; authority |
| 政权 (政權) | zhèng quán | regime; political power |
| 人权 (人權) | rén quán | human rights |
| 授权 (授權) | shòu quán | to authorize |
| 有权 (有權) | yǒu quán | to have the right to; to be entitled to |
| 谋杀 (謀殺) | móu shā | to murder; to assassinate |
| 阴谋 (陰謀) | yīn móu | to conspire; to plot; a conspiracy; a plot |
See also: Japanese symbol for “trickery”.
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.