slander

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

哥 sound component

  Sound component

  

elder brother

Evolution

謌 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
謌 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
謌 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

𬤐 () 

slander, defame

() 

variant of [gē]

Most common words with 謌
Freq.
Word
Meaning

song

歌曲

song

唱歌

to sing a song

歌手

singer

歌词

song lyric

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 41.7748% of movies

491st most common character in movies

1040th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+8B0C

Shuowen

“歌,詠也。从欠,哥聲。謌,謌(歌)或从言。”


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