bad-mouth

Components
此 sound component

  Sound component

  

this

言 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

speech

Evolution

訾 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
訾 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

bad-mouth; criticize; defects; to calculate; to assess; wealth

 

surname Zi

 

to slander; to detest

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-N-tse(j)

zje

fault


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6132nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+8A3E

Shuowen

“訾,不思稱意也。从言,此聲。《詩》曰:‘翕翕訿訿’。”


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