Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement

詐: lie, falsehood

Also: deceive, pretend

JLPT N112 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

言 carries the meaning · 乍 gives the sound

12 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

サsa · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 詐欺さぎfraud; swindle; graft
  • 詐称さしょうmisrepresentation; false statement
  • 詐取さしゅdefrauding; swindle
  • 詐欺師さぎしswindler; fraudster; trickster

Also read いつわる, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
言

Also built on speech (言)

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乍

Also built on 乍

The 乍 family reads サク (saku); 詐 is read サ.

Also read サ

16 kanji share this on'yomiAll 16

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
詐 lie · 乍
vs託 consign · 乇
詐 has 乍 where 託 has 乇.
In ChineseSimplified 诈 · traditional, as in Japanese · zhà

Japan keeps the traditional form 詐; mainland China simplifies it to 诈.

Simplified
诈 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
詐 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin zhà most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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