Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

1511 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 12

Meaning: lie, falsehood, deceive, pretend

Kunyomi: いつわ.る

Onyomi:

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: speech

Examples

Onyomi Examples

サギ fraud, swindle, graft, cheating, trick, scam, saying you're going to do something but in the end not doing it, making promises without keeping them

欺師 サギシ swindler, fraudster, trickster, con man

ギサ fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax

キッサ falsehood, fabrication, dissimulation

Kunyomi Examples

偽る いつわる to lie, to cheat, to pretend, to feign, to falsify, to trick, to deceive