詐
zhà

cheat

诈 (詐) zhà
bluff verb
to draw someone out or try to extract information by deceit or bluff

我用话诈他，他果然说出了真相。

wǒ yòng huà zhà tā, tā guǒ​rán shuō​chū le zhēn​xiàng.

I tricked him into speaking, and sure enough, he revealed the truth.

cheat verb
to cheat or swindle

他诈取了大量的钱财。

tā zhà qǔ le dà​liàng de qián​cái.

He swindled a large amount of money.

feign verb
to pretend or feign

他由于力竭而选择诈降。

tā yóu​yú lì jié ér xuǎn​zé zhà xiáng.

He chose to feign surrender out of exhaustion.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,403rd most common 21.7 per million
Movie subtitles
1,965th most common 20.4 per million appears in 10% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.35 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
3.32 per million

Details
Simplified
诈
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+8A50

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)