sòng

accuse

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
讠 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

is a component form of .

公 sound component

  Sound component

gōng

  

public

Evolution

讼 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
讼 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
讼 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
讼 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
讼 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

sòng

accuse; argue, dispute; litigate; litigation

Most common words with 讼
Freq.
Word
Meaning

诉讼

lawsuit

litigation

民事诉讼

common plea

刑事诉讼法

criminal procedure

诉讼法

procedural law

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.9907% of movies

2153rd most common character in movies

1862nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Traditional

Unicode

U+8BBC


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