slander

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

氐 sound component

  Sound component

  

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Evolution

詆 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
詆 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
詆 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

slander, condemn, reproach; to defame; to slander

Most common words with 詆
Freq.
Word
Meaning

诋毁

to vilify

to defame

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.2494% of movies

3342nd most common character in movies

4464th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

Unicode

U+8A46

Shuowen

“詆,苛也。一曰訶也。从言,氐聲。”


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