huǎng

lie

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 .

荒 sound component

  Sound component

huāng

  

wasteland

Evolution

谎 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
谎 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

huǎng

lie; lies; to lie

Most common words with 谎
Freq.
Word
Meaning

撒谎

to tell lies

谎言

lie

说谎

to lie

lies

谎话

lie

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 50.3284% of movies

733rd most common character in movies

2207th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

Unicode

U+8C0E


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