ridicule

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

幾 sound component

  Sound component

  

how much

Evolution

譏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

ridicule, jeer, mock; inspect; to ridicule

Most common words with 譏
Freq.
Word
Meaning

讥讽

to satirize

讥笑

to sneer

to ridicule

反唇相讥

to retort

讥诮

to deride

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2922nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

Unicode

U+8B4F

Shuowen

“譏,誹也。从言,幾聲。”


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