Question

欺 あざむ.く 詐欺(さぎ): fraud; swindle; graft欺く(あざむく): to deceive; to delude; to trick; to fool S 其: that欠: lack; gap; fail; yawning radical (no. 76) 欠 4 (none) deceit Every day, a smuggler takes bushel baskets on donkeys across the border. But the border patrols can never arrest him for lack of evidence no matter how much they search the bushel baskets: they can´t find whatever he is smuggling. What was his deceit? He was smuggling donkeys!

Accepted Answer

ギ deceit, cheat, delude 1 1541 12 76 あくび・けんづくり・かける・けつ 形声 Phonetic He escaped using deceit. That is, he ran past while the guard was yawning and hid in the bushel basket.

Kanji	欺
Onyomi	ギ
Kunyomi	あざむ.く
English	deceit, cheat, delude
Examples	詐欺(さぎ): fraud; swindle; graft 欺く(あざむく): to deceive; to delude; to trick; to fool
JLPT Level	1
Jouyou Grade	S
Frequency	1541
Components	其: that 欠: lack; gap; fail; yawning radical (no. 76)
Number of Strokes	12
Kanji Radical	欠
Radical Number	76
Radical Strokes	4
Radical Reading	あくび・けんづくり・かける・けつ
Traditional Form	(none)
Classification	形声 Phonetic
Keyword	deceit
Koohii Story 1	He escaped using deceit. That is, he ran past while the guard was yawning and hid in the bushel basket.
Koohii Story 2	Every day, a smuggler takes bushel baskets on donkeys across the border. But the border patrols can never arrest him for lack of evidence no matter how much they search the bushel baskets: they can´t find whatever he is smuggling. What was his deceit? He was smuggling donkeys!

Bushel Yawning 欺 ギ あざむ.く Deceit Cheat Delude

Bushel Yawning 欺ギあざむ.く Deceit Cheat Delude