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(piàn) - to deceive, to cheat in Mandarin

piàn

Traditional: 騙

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Translation

to deceive, to cheat

Word origin

骗 (piàn) is a phono-semantic compound of 马, the horse radical, and 扁 (biǎn) as the phonetic. It first meant 'to leap onto a horse' and later shifted to the figurative sense 'to deceive' or 'to cheat'.

Origin
phono-semantic compound
Root
马 (horse radical) + 扁 (biǎn, phonetic)

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Examples

Do not deceive me.

He has been cheated.

I have never deceived anyone.

He deceived everyone.

Don't try to fool the teacher.

骗 (piàn) means to deceive or to cheat.

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This word is part of lesson 19.