谬
miù HSK7

error

Components

讠
讠 Meaning component
yán speech

speech

翏
翏 Sound component
liù, lù to sweep away, to remove

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

謬 miù error Traditional

Components

言
言 Meaning component
yán speech

speech

翏
翏 Sound component
liù, lù to sweep away, to remove

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartmjiwHm-riw-s (dialect: *m-r- > *mr-)lie, error < 'twist the truth'
Zhengzhangmrɯws

說文解字

狂者之妄言也。从言翏聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)