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诡

guǐ

Character Traditional 詭

What 诡 means

1. bound formsly; crafty
2. literaryweird; bizarre
3. literarycontradictory; inconsistent

Example sentences

• 我的电脑好诡异。
  Wǒ de diànnǎo hǎo guǐyì.
  My computer is behaving strangely.
• 德国人诡计多端。
  Déguórén guǐjìduōduān.
  The Germans are very crafty.
• 听起来非常诡异啊！
  Tīngqilai fēicháng guǐyì ā!
  That sounds really weird!
• 老的犬可以学新的诡计。
  Lǎo de quǎn kěyǐ xué xīn de guǐjì.
  Old dogs can learn new tricks.
• 我是不会被她的诡计骗倒的。
  Wǒ shì bù huì bèi tā de guǐjì piàn dǎo de.
  I refuse to be taken in by her guile.
• 天黑之后，景色变得诡异阴森。
  When it got dark, the scenery became strange and spooky.

Words starting with 诡

• 诡异guǐ yìstrange; weird
• 诡秘guǐ mìsecretive; furtive; surreptitious
• 诡计guǐ jìtrick; ruse; crafty scheme
• 诡谲guǐ juéweird; sly; treacherous
• 诡辩guǐ biànspecious arguments; sophistry
• 诡笑guǐ xiàosmirk; insincere smile
• 诡诈guǐ zhàsly; treacherous
• 诡辩家guǐ biàn jiāsophist; one who relies on specious arguments
• 诡辩术guǐ biàn shùspecious arguments; sophistry
• 诡计多端guǐ jì duō duāndeceitful in many ways (idiom); wily and mischievous; full of craft and cunning

Words containing 诡

• 奇诡qí guǐstrange; queer; intriguing
• 吊诡diào guǐbizarre; paradoxical; a paradox (from Daoist classic Zhuangzi 庄子
• 阴谋诡计yīn móu guǐ jìcrafty plots and machinations (idiom)
• 吊诡矜奇diào guǐ jīn qístrange and paradoxical

Characters built on 危

These share the phonetic component 危 (wēi), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 脆cuìbrittle; fragile; crisp
• 跪guìto kneel

Characters that look like 诡

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 该gāishould; ought to; probably
• 俄ésuddenly; very soon
• 诚chéng(bound form) sincere; authentic; (literary) really; truly
• 侯hóumarquis, second of the five orders of ancient Chinese nobility 五等爵位; nobleman…
• 诱yòu(literary) to induce; to entice
• 诫jiècommandment; to prohibit

Sounds the same

Read guǐ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 鬼disembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc…
• 轨(bound form) rail; track; course; path
• 癸tenth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干; tenth in order…
• 晷sundial
• 簋ancient bronze food vessel with a round mouth and two or four handles…
• 氿mountain spring
• 宄traitor
• 庋(literary) shelf; (literary) to store; to keep; to preserve
• 姽quiet and nice
• 佹(literary) perverse; unreasonable; (literary) eccentric; enigmatic; (literary) by chance…
• 垝(literary) dilapidated; collapsed; damaged
• 匦small box