Taxonomy of meanings for 詭:　　

  • 詭 guǐ (OC: krolʔ MC: kʷɯiɛ) 過委切 上 廣韻：【詐也又横財物爲詭遇也過委切十九 】
    • CHEAT
      • nabactcheating
      • vadNdeceitful, cheating
      • vadVMENG, HANSHU: (e.g. speak, or treat someone) dishonestly
      • viactbe dishonest, swindle
      • vtoNcheat aboutCH
    • CONTRARY
      • vtoNbe contradictory with, be incompatible with; be radically different
    • STRANGE
      • vadNstrange and deceitful; sophistical
      • vibe weird; be sophistical
    • REQUEST
      • PRETEND
        • DIFFERENT
          • DESTROY
            • RESPONSIBILITY
              • CHANGE
                • MYTHICAL ANIMALS
                  • BONE
                    • SURNAMES
                    • guǐCONFLICT
                      • nabsocialconflictCH

                    Additional information about 詭

                    說文解字: 【詭】，責也。从言、危聲。 【過委切】

                      Criteria
                    • CHEAT

                      1. The standard common word for cheating is qī 欺 (ant. chéng 誠 ) and it refers to any deliberate act of deception, self-interested or not, even occasionally self-deception.

                      2. Zhà 詐 (ant. què 愨 "honest") is a fraudulent act of cheating designed to harm the interests of others.

                      3. Wěi 偽 (ant. zhēn 真 "true, unfaked") is dissumulation and pretense, not necessarily with an intent to harm others.

                      4. Guǐ 詭 and jué 譎 (all ant. zhèng 正 "straight and not deceitful") are dishonesty with an intent to deceive and harm others.

                      5. Wū 誣 is to deliberately mislead someone through lying.

                      6. Dàn 誕 is to deceive through boastful exaggeration. See EXAGGERATE

                      7. Mán 謾 refers primarily to the speaking without being serious about what one says.

                      NB: There is an extraordinary wealth of rare vocabulary of possibly colloquial origin within this field.

                      Word relations
                    • Contrast: (STRANGE)怪/STRANGE The current general word for things strange is guài 怪 (ant. cháng 常 "ordinary") .
                    • Contrast: (CONTRARY)殊/DIFFERENT Shū 殊 (ant. jìn 近 "essentially close to", yī 一 "be one and the same") refers abstractly to a categorial distanc
                    • Assoc: (STRANGE)異/STRANGE Yì 異 (ant. cháng 常 "ordinary") focusses on something being out of the ordinary.
                    • Assoc: (STRANGE)譎/STRANGE
                    • Assoc: (CONTRARY)違/CONTRARY
                    • Synon: (CONTRARY)乖/CONTRARY Guāi 乖 refers to any kind of practical contradiction or opposition, also opposition to what is current and acceptable. See WICKED