讹
訛é
#3,773 most
frequent character
error, false, to extort
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
讹 joins 讠 speech with the sound 化 huà, though the sound link is not obvious in Mandarin. It first meant a rumor. From there it grew to mean an error, and then to extort.
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