verb #16,676

Meanings

  1. 1 to deceive
  2. 2 to cheat
  3. 3 to bully

Examples

Qīpiàn
to deceive; to cheat
Qīfu
to bully; to pick on

Tips

memory
(his/its) + (owe) — taking what is owed through deception

Components

radical
qiàn
to yawn; lack
Right side — pictograph of a person leaning forward with mouth open, originally 'to exhale, gape, yawn.' The indexing radical, marking in the family of mouth-expression verbs: to sing, joy, to rest. Semantic logic: is to deceive by speaking — bending toward someone and pouring out false words.
phonetic
his; that one (old phonetic)
Left side supplies the sound: qí → qī with tone shift only. originally pictured a woven winnowing-basket on a stand (shape preserved in modern 'dustpan'); later borrowed as third-person pronoun ('his / that one'). Same phonetic family: period, chess, banner, dappled horse — recognising unlocks them all.

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