bàng
slander
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 旁 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pˤaŋ-s | pangH | bàng | slander |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.9862% of movies
2936th most common character in movies
3253rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8B17 |
Shuowen | “謗,毀也。从言,聲。” |
Sources
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