The kanji 欺 primarily conveys the meaning of deception, trickery, and deceit. It implies an act of misleading or misleading someone, often with the intention of gaining an advantage or causing harm. It can also suggest fraud or cheating.

・On-yomi (音読み): ギ (gi) ・Kun-yomi (訓読み): あざむ.く (azam.uku) - to deceive, to trick

⚫︎ 欺く Translation: to deceive, to trick. ⚫︎ 詐欺 (sagi) Translation: fraud, swindle. ⚫︎ 欺瞞 (giman) Translation: deception, deceit.

The kanji 欺 is a phono-semantic compound (形声文字). The left side, radical 欠 (けつ, ketsu), originally meant "to lack" or "deficiency." In this context, it contributes the general idea of something being amiss or incomplete, suggesting something is not as it seems. The right side, 其 (き, ki), is the phonetic component, indicating the sound and contributing the meaning of "that" or "it". Therefore, 欺 was formed by combining the meaning of lack with the sound and also partially the meaning of "that" to express a situation of misleading or deception. The "lack" suggests the lack of truth or genuineness.