欺诈

qī zhà · HSK 7

to cheat

🎭 欺 deceive + 诈 swindle = two cheating words stacked into one: fraud

Both characters already mean trickery: 欺 (qī) is to deceive or bully, 诈 (zhà) is to swindle. Stacking two synonyms hardens the sense into outright fraud or scamming.

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