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谤

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to slander; to defame; to speak ill of

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Old HSK
Level 6
Strokes
12
Radical
言 +10
Structure
Left–right 左右
Traditional
謗
Common rank
#5,127
Unicode
U+8C24

Sound it out + =

Formation & memory

Break the character into parts you already know.

How 谤 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

讠 meaning “speech” + 旁 sound ( páng )

Components 讠 旁

Words with 谤

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

WordPinyinMeaning
毁谤 huǐ bàng slander; libel; to malign; to disparage
诽谤 fěi bàng to slander; to libel

Sound family

Characters sharing the sound component 旁 — compare how they read.

CharacterPinyinMeaning
旁 sound part páng side; beside, close, nearby
磅 bàng pound; to weigh
滂 pāng torrential; voluminous
鳑 páng carp
蒡 bàng great burdock; Arctium lappa
镑 bàng pound sterling
螃 páng crab
耪 pǎng to cultivate, to plow