swindling; fraudulent scheme; trickery
Refers to deceptive methods or schemes used to cheat someone, often in a calculated or systematic way. Slightly formal or literary.
彼は詐術を使って多額の金をだまし取った。
He used fraudulent schemes to swindle a large amount of money.
That investment proposal was a clever piece of trickery.
Compound of 詐 (sa, 'deceive') and 術 (jutsu, 'technique, art'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the kanji combination directly conveys 'deceptive technique'.