You Collection, Upper Volume
Radical: Speech (yán)
Kangxi Strokes: 12
Page 1154, Entry 06
Pronounced zha (falling tone).
Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters): To deceive.
Erya (Approaching Elegance), Interpretation of Words: To be false.
Zheng Yun (Correct Rhymes): Cunning and crafty.
Zuo Zhuan (Chronicle of Zuo), 15th Year of Duke Xuan: I will not deceive you, and you will not suspect me.
Book of Rites (Liji), Record of Music: The wise deceive the foolish.
Commentary: This refers to deceiving and defrauding foolish people.
Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Earth Office, Market Superintendent: Use the market regulations to prohibit falsification and eliminate deceit.
Commentary: This refers to prohibiting falsified goods and removing the deceit and vanity of people.
Book of Jin (Jinshu), Treatise on Law: To act contrary to good faith and harbor craftiness is called deceit.
Xunzi, Cultivating the Person chapter: To conceal one's true actions is called deceit.
Shuoyuan (Garden of Stories), Valuing Virtue chapter: Cunning deceit is not as good as clumsy sincerity.
Also means sudden.
Gongyang Zhuan (Gongyang's Commentary), 33rd Year of Duke Xi: A sudden battle is not dated.
Commentary: Deceit means sudden. This is the vernacular of the Qi people.
Commentary: According to the conventions of the Spring and Autumn Annals, battles between unequal forces are recorded by the day, but sudden battles are recorded by the month.
Also rhymes with zha (rising tone).
Wang Anshi, Poem Sent to Zeng Gong: I am able to value integrity and directness, though the world may call it deceptive.
Rhymes with words in the same category.
Also rhymes with zuo (falling tone).
Jin Yu (Discourses of Jin): Being deceptive and being deceived, they ultimately lost their wealth.
Lüshi Chunqiu (Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals), Chapter on Desires: Emotions and temperaments are easily stirred, and the mind is not steadfast. Showing off power and valuing cleverness, one is full of fraud and deceit.
Also rhymes with zuo (falling tone).
Book of Han (Hanshu), Narrative Preface: Without laws or standards, the people indulge in their deceit. Pressing upon those above and encroaching upon those below, they wildly increase their wealth.
