诬陷 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

wū make false accusation Simplified

To start 讠 a witch-hunt 巫; 巫 also provides the pronunciation

Components

讠 Meaning component

yán speech

巫 Sound Meaning component

wū wizard, shaman

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode

xiàn submerge

Phonosemantic compound. 阝 represents the meaning and 臽 represents the sound.

Components

阝 Meaning component

fù hill, place

阝 is a component form of 阜.

臽 Sound Iconic component

xiàn a pit

Depicts a person (人) falling into a pit or a trap (凵).

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	heamH	[ɢ]ˤromʔ-s	fall into a pit

說文解字

《說文》：“陷，高下也。一曰陊也。从，从臽，臽亦聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

wū make false accusation Traditional

To start 言 a witch-hunt 巫; 巫 also provides the pronunciation

Components

言 Meaning component

yán speech

巫 Sound Meaning component

wū wizard, shaman

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	mju	[m](r)[o]	deceive
Zhengzhang		ma
Unicode	mio

說文解字

加也。从言巫聲。

Sources

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

诬 wū make false accusation Simplified

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陷 xiàn submerge

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誣 wū make false accusation Traditional

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wū make false accusation Simplified

xiàn submerge

wū make false accusation Traditional