Chinese

騙

piàn
to deceive; to fool
  • Phono-semantic compound 形聲
  • HSK 5
  • TOCFL 6
  • radical 馬
  • 19 strokes
  • 騗
  • 𱅝

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Origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *pʰens): semantic 馬 (“horse”) + phonetic 扁 (OC *pʰen, *benʔ, *peːnʔ, *beːnʔ) – to mount a horse by swinging a leg across it.

; to swindle; to deceive

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Lineage

  • meaningChinese馬 “horse (Classifier: 匹 m c; 隻／只 m c h mn; 條／条 h)”
  • soundChinese扁 “flat and thin (like a pancake)”
    • ideaChinese戶 “door”
    • ideaChinese冊 “book”

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