to cheat / to swindle / to pretend / to feign / to draw sb out / to try to extract information by deceit or bluff
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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.
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).
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The horizontal lines look like sound waves that emerge from an opening: I'll resemble 言 by a megaphone.
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Maud Younger rushes into anthill and in the kitchen she uses a megaphone to loudly announce that the world revolution will soon start. She also tells the people that she has berets for everyone so that everyone will be able to be in style for the revolution. However she doesn't tell that she prepared the berets in another way: to each beret, she attached a mandarin via two capacitors which forms a formidable antenna, so that after the revolution, she'll be able to transmit her speeches directly to the wearers' brains.
Characters with 詐 as component
詐
is not used as a component in another character.