谣
謡yáo
#2,595 most
frequent character
variant of 謠|谣[yao2]
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
谣 has 讠 speech as the meaning part and 䍃 yáo as the sound part. It first meant a song sung without music. That grew to ballad and folk song, and then to rumor.
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