诬

誣
wū
#3,063 most
frequent character
to accuse falsely

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

诬 has 讠 (speech, words) as its meaning part and 巫 wū as a sound part. It first meant 'to deceive.' That grew to 'to make a false accusation' and then 'slander.'

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