dié

an intelligence report

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

枼 sound component

  Sound component

  

leaf

Evolution

諜 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
諜 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
諜 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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dié

an intelligence report; to spy; spying

Most common words with 諜
Freq.
Word
Meaning

间谍

spy

to spy

谍报

spy report

间谍网

spy network

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.4483% of movies

1771st most common character in movies

2391st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+8ADC

Shuowen

“諜,軍中反閒也。从言,枼聲。”


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