谤

謗
bàng
#3,247 most
frequent character
to slander, to defame, to speak ill of

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

谤 has 讠 speech as its meaning part and 旁 páng as its sound part. It first meant to publicly scold someone for a mistake. The meaning then grew to speak ill of and slander.

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