to cheat / to swindle / to pretend / to feign / to draw sb out / to try to extract information by deceit or bluff

= + : As James II of England (zh) is using the ashram's bathroom (a4) he studies an advertising column (讠) next to him which urges him to get a Mohawk haircut (乍). After a while he realizes it is just a scheme to deceive (诈) him into giving up his hair so that they can get is DNA.

诈 character breakdown

at first / suddenly / abruptly / to spread / (of hair) to stand on end / bristling

Mnemonic symbol: a Mohawk haircut. It fits the hair "to stand on end" and the character itself looks like a head with a Mohawk haircut facing towards the left.

James II of England (zh) tries out a Mohawk haircut (乍) in the ashram's bathroom (a4).
"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]

Mnemonic symbol: this character looks like a big "i" (like in information), and I'll represent it by an advertising column. Maud Younger (y) gives a speech (讠) standing on top of an advertising column (讠) in the anthill's kitchen (an2).

Characters with 诈 as component

诈 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 诈

to rip off / to extort (money) / extortion / blackmail
crafty / cunning / deceitful
extortion and blackmail (idiom)
to extort under false pretenses / to blackmail / to bluff / to defraud
lit. you hoodwink me and I cheat you (idiom) / fig. each tries to outwit the other / deceit and treachery
feigned surrender
there can never be too much deception in war / in war nothing is too deceitful / all's fair in war
to be linked to fraudulent activity
to deceive and swindle across the board (idiom)
tricky and hypocritical
to claim ownership (of stolen goods)
sudden movement of a corpse (superstition) / fig. sudden torrent of abuse
deceitful / crafty / artful
the unvarnished truth is better than a cunning ruse (idiom) / honesty is the best policy
brutal, greedy, arrogant and deceitful (idiom)

Sentences with 诈

诈 currently does not appear in any sentence.