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to beguile with false stories
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訹 means to lure, entice, or deceive someone through persuasive speech. It is a phonetic-semantic compound: the semantic indicator 言 (speech, words) on the left ties the character to verbal communication, while the phonetic component 术 (shù, meaning art or method) on the right supplies the pronunciation. In this structure, the speech radical provides the core meaning, and 术 lends its sound, together forming a character that denotes manipulative or coaxing language.
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