詐欺

さぎ · sagi · JLPT N1 · noun

fraud

🎭 詐 (trick) + 欺 (deceive): two words for cheating stacked into one fraud term

詐 (sa) means trick or con, and 欺 (gi) means deceive or dupe. Together they name fraud: the trick plus the deception it relies on.

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