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谲

譎
jué
adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 (classical) deceitful; cunning
  2. 2 (classical) strange; unpredictable

Examples

晋文公谲而不正。
Jìn Wéngōng jué ér bù zhèng.
Duke Wen of Jin was crafty and not upright.

Tips

history
Not used alone in modern speech; it survives in literary words — 诡谲 (treacherous, bizarre) and 谲诈 (deceitful). The right side 矞 is the phonetic, the same element in 橘 and 潏.
register
Literary only; in speech people say 狡猾 for cunning.

Components

radical
讠 yán
speech; words
The speech radical 讠 is 言 in left-side form. It marks 谲 as something done with words — crafty, deceiving speech.
phonetic
矞 yù
phonetic (jué / yù series)
On the right, 矞 supplies the sound. It heads the phonetic family behind 橘, 谲 and 燏; it adds no meaning here.

Stroke Order

谲 jué