Translation of "bluff" into Chinese?

[tooironic]

How would translate "bluff" into Chinese?

By "bluff", I mean deceiving someone into believing that one can or will do something. For example, you fool your friends into thinking that you have a great poker hand, when in fact all you have is a single ace.

I've seen it translate as 忽悠 and 唬(人), but I'm not sure if these mean the same thing.

Thanks in advance.

[gato]

Try 吹牛. There is a game called 吹牛, which is based on bluffing.

[mtpastille]

http://zh.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%B9%E7%89%9B_(%E6%92%B2%E5%85%8B%E9%81%8A%E6%88%B2)

吹牛 or 撒謊 seem to be right. I'm always slightly disappointed by how some words which have a very specific meaning in English seem to get squeezed into much less specific words in Mandarin.

[semantic nuance]

I'd go '唬人'. Try to google " 打牌 bluff", you'll see a bunch of examples.

[arrow]

Search 扑克术语 and you can get Bluff=诈唬

[Shirley_Chen]

deceiving someone into believing that one can or will do something=虚张声势

[tooironic]

Interesting, I didn't realise there was a chengyu for it as well. In what situations is that term used Shirley?

[Shirley_Chen]

Interesting, I didn't realise there was a chengyu for it as well. In what situations is that term used Shirley?

It means bravado, you can use it when you try to make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it, or that you know something when you do not really know it.

[HusbandOfWuhan]

The most basic and generally common way of saying "bluff" in Chinese is ”骗“。

Other ways include: 欺诈：蒙骗：蒙；欺哄；欺骗；

An equivalent idiom would be 拿腔作势 among many others.

Interesting how none of these were even mentioned in the previous 7 replies.

[Touji]

Hi all, 

 

As a matter of fact, when it comes to poker, for example, to bluff is actually: Tōu jī (偷雞)

 

I know no Chinese at all  but I was watching some poker games and they kept saying it so the commentator said something about the literal meaning being 'to steal the other's chicken' or something like that, so that's how I ended up finding it on Google.

 

Link to my comment: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/偷雞