詭き弁べん

Don't confuse with

• レトリック

  詭弁 means sophistry or a deliberately misleading argument, while レトリック simply means rhetorical style and is not inherently deceptive.

Word family

• 詭き弁べん家か

  sophist

Written forms

• 詭き弁べんUsage99%

  Standard modern kanji form.

• きべんUsage1%
• 詭き辯べん
  out-dated kanji form

  Outdated kanji form using 辯; rarely seen in modern texts.

• 奇き弁べん
  rarely-used kanji form

  Rarely used kanji form.

• 危き弁べん
  rarely-used kanji form

  Rarely used kanji form.

Etymology

From Chinese 詭辯／诡辩 (guǐbiàn). The kanji 詭 means 'deceive' or 'lie', and 弁 means 'speech' or 'argument'.