gē
slander
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 哥 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 41.7748% of movies
491st most common character in movies
1040th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8B0C |
Shuowen | “歌,詠也。从欠,哥聲。謌,謌(歌)或从言。” |
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