bàng

slander

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

旁 sound component

  Sound component

páng

  

side

Evolution

謗 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
謗 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
謗 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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bàng

slander, libel; to slander; to defame; to speak ill of

Most common words with 謗
Freq.
Word
Meaning

诽谤

to slander

to slander

毁谤

slander

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pˤaŋ-s

pangH

bàng

slander


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.9862% of movies

2936th most common character in movies

3253rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+8B17

Shuowen

“謗,毀也。从言,聲。”


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