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诪 is a verb meaning to deceive or mislead through speech. It is a phono-semantic compound: the left side is the speech radical 讠 (simplified from 言), indicating verbal action, and the right side 寿 (a simplification of 壽) provides the sound. The traditional form 譸 uses the full radical 言 and phonetic 壽. Historically, the character appears in literary and historical texts to describe formal acts of fraud and verbal manipulation. Today its use is largely confined to written literature, with modern spoken language employing other terms for deception.
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