Memory phrase for the character: 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/scoopwinnowing fan
欠 deficiencyThe radical kakeru shows a mouth wide open ⺈ of a person 人 [when yawning] and stands for lack or deficiency. (perhaps a lack of good manners?)




 Vocabulary

欺く あざむく  to deceive
詐欺 さぎ  fraud, swindle

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