accuse

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

Components
讠 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

is a component form of .

斥 sound component

  Sound component

chì

  

to scold

Evolution

诉 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
诉 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
诉 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
诉 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

accuse; sue; inform; narrate; to complain; to sue; to tell

() 

variant of |[sù]

Most common words with 诉
Freq.
Word
Meaning

告诉

to tell

投诉

complaint

诉讼

lawsuit

起诉

to sue

to sue

Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 98.5103% of movies

127th most common character in movies

595th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

Unicode

U+8BC9


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