Chinese Character Wiki

謬

miù

error

Components
言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

speech

翏 sound component

翏  Sound component

liù

  

to sweep away, to remove

Evolution

謬 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
謬 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
謬 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
謬 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

谬 (謬) 

miù

error, exaggeration; erroneous; to deceive; to confuse; to cheat; absurd

Most common words with 謬
Freq.
Word
Meaning

荒谬

absurd

谬论

fallacy

谬

to deceive

谬误

error

荒谬绝伦

the height of folly

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-riw-s (dialect: *m-r- > *mr-)

mjiwH

miù

lie, error < 'twist the truth'


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 11.7572% of movies

1935th most common character in movies

2390th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

谬

Unicode

U+8B2C

Shuowen

“謬，狂者之妄言也。从言，翏聲。”


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