fěi
slander
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 非 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pə[j] | pj+j | fěi | slander |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.7940% of movies
2992nd most common character in movies
3541st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8AB9 |
Shuowen | “誹,謗也。从言,非聲。” |
Sources
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