ridicule

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
讠 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

is a component form of .

几 sound component

  Sound component

  

small table

Evolution

讥 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
讥 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
讥 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

ridicule, jeer, mock; inspect; to ridicule

Most common words with 讥
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

4

Traditional

Unicode

U+8BA5


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