chán

slander

Components

Meaning component
yán speech
Sound component
chán cunning

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangzrɯːm
zraːms
Unicodejrhæm

說文解字

譖也。从言毚聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

chán slander Simplified

Components

Meaning component
yán speech

speech

Sound component
miǎn (hat), avoid

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode