wū
make false accusation
To start 言 a witch-hunt 巫; 巫 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 誣
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to entrap | ||
to slander | ||
to frame sb | ||
to accuse falsely | ||
to accuse falsely |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[m](r)[o] | mju | wū | deceive |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.8100% of movies
3144th most common character in movies
3069th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8AA3 |
Shuowen | “誣，加也。从言，巫聲。” |
Sources
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
