(piàn) - to deceive, to cheat in Mandarin
piànTraditional: 騙
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)
Stroke order
骗
Examples
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Do not deceive me.
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He has been cheated.
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I have never deceived anyone.
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He deceived everyone.
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Don't try to fool the teacher.
骗 (piàn) means to deceive or to cheat.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 骗.
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