Chinese Character Wiki

诋

dǐ

slander

Phonosemantic compound. 讠 represents the meaning and 氐 represents the sound. Simplified form of 詆.

Components
讠 meaning component

讠  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

讠 is a component form of 言.

氐 sound component

氐  Sound component

dī, dǐ

  

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Evolution

诋 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
诋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
诋 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
诋 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

诋 (詆) 

dǐ

slander, condemn, reproach; to defame; to slander

Most common words with 诋
Freq.
Word
Meaning

诋毁

to vilify

诋

to defame

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.2494% of movies

3342nd most common character in movies

4464th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

詆

Unicode

U+8BCB


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