诈骗犯

詐騙犯

zhàpiànfàn

noun #33,043

Measure Word

一个诈骗犯 gè

Meanings

1 fraudster
2 swindler
3 scammer (legal term — a person convicted of or charged with fraud)

Characters

to cheat; deceive

to swindle; trick

criminal; offender

Examples

警方抓获了一名电信诈骗犯。

Jǐngfāng zhuāhuòle yì míng diànxìn zhàpiànfàn.

Police caught a telecom fraudster.

他被判定为诈骗犯,获刑五年。

Tā bèi pàndìng wéi zhàpiànfàn, huòxíng wǔ nián.

He was found guilty of fraud and sentenced to five years.

Tips

usage

诈骗 = to defraud / swindle; 犯 = criminal / offender. The 犯 suffix builds many crime-actor terms in Chinese: 杀人犯 (murderer), 强奸犯 (rapist), 抢劫犯 (robber), 走私犯 (smuggler). 电信诈骗犯 (telecom fraudster) is the most common modern collocation thanks to widespread phone-scam crackdowns in China.

Stroke Order

诈 zhà

骗 piàn

犯 fàn