Chinese Character Wiki

讒

chán

slander

Components
言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

毚 sound component

毚  Sound component

chán

  

cunning

Evolution

讒 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
讒 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

谗 (讒) 

chán

slander, defame, misrepresent; to slander; to defame; to misrepresent; to speak maliciously

Most common words with 讒
Freq.
Word
Meaning

谗言

slander

谗

to slander

谗佞

a slandering toady

谗害

to slander

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4437th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

24

Simplified

谗

Unicode

U+8B92

Shuowen

“讒，譖也。从言，毚聲。”


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