zèn
to slander
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ts]r[ə]m-s | tsrimH | zèn | accuse |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
6361st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8B56 |
Shuowen | “譖，愬也。从言，朁聲。” |
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