诈

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

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

"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]