Memory phrase for the Kanji: 欺

欺

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Meaning cheat, fox, deceive

Pronunciation

GI
azamuku

Explanation

Left: grain shovel/scoop 其 (tool for threshing, by throwing up the grain rhythmically in certain periods {thus used in period 期} to separate the grain from the husk), right: lack/fault 欠 (The mouth wide open ⺈ of the yawning person 人 is lacking sth.)

Mnemonic

A grain scoop is lacking, I have been cheated!

Radicals

其	grain shovel/scoop	winnowing fan
欠	deficiency	The radical kakeru* shows a mouth wide open ⺈ of a person 人 and stands for lack or deficiency. (perhaps a lack of good manners?)*

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Vocabulary

欺く	あざむく	to deceive
詐欺	さぎ	fraud, swindle

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