Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
speech 言 (訁)
Parts:
Variants:
lie, falsehood, deceive, pretend
Kun:
いつわ.る
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1511 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 詐欺 【サギ】 fraud, swindle, graft, cheating, trick, scam, saying you're going to do something but in the end not doing it, making promises without keeping them, flaking out
  • 詐欺師 【サギシ】 swindler, fraudster, trickster, con man
  • 欺詐 【ギサ】 fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax
  • 譎詐 【キッサ】 falsehood, fabrication, dissimulation

Kun reading compounds

  • 偽る 【いつわる】 to lie, to pretend, to feign, to falsify, to deceive, to trick

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zha4
Korean:
sa

Spanish

  • mentira
  • falsedad
  • engañar
  • fingir

Portuguese

  • mentira
  • falsidade
  • enganar
  • fingir

French

  • mentir
  • fausseté
  • fraude
  • tromper
  • duper
  • feindre
1285 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1464 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4337 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1278 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1747 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1498 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1597 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1575 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1670 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1896 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1006 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1362 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1150 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
35373 Morohashi
1502 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5585 New Nelson (John Haig)
1141 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1223 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1584 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3054 2001 Kanji
7a5.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-5 SKIP code
0861.1 Four corner code
1-26-30 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8a50 Unicode hex code