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诡计多端

guǐ jì duō duān

4-character word Traditional 詭計多端

What 诡计多端 means

1. deceitful in many ways (idiom); wily and mischievous
2. full of craft and cunning

The characters in 诡计多端

• 诡guǐ(bound form) sly; crafty; (literary) weird; bizarre; (literary) contradictory…
• 计jìto calculate; to compute; to count
• 多duōmany; much; more; a lot of; too many; in excess; (after a numeral) ... odd
• 端duān(bound form) tip; end; extremity; (bound form) aspect; facet; (bound form) upright; proper

Example sentences

• 德国人诡计多端。
  Déguórén guǐjìduōduān.
  The Germans are very crafty.

Sounds the same

Read guǐ jì duō duān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 鬼计多端full of devilish tricks and cunning stratagems (idiom); sly; crafty