谍
Tap the pinyin to hear it
to spy
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 言 +9
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 諜
- Common rank
- #3,062
- Unicode
- U+8C0D
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 谍 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
讠 meaning “speech” + 枼 sound
Components 讠 枼
How to remember it
espionage · Heisig RSH #1657
words + family tree
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 谍
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 间谍活动 | espionage; spying | |
| 间谍软件 | spyware | |
| 反间谍 | counterintelligence; protection against espionage | |
| 间谍网 | spy network | |
| 间谍罪 | crime of spying | |
| 台谍 | Taiwan spy | |
| 台谍 | Taiwan spy | |
| 谍报 | spy report; intelligence | |
| 谍战 | (movie genre) espionage thriller (typically involving Chinese agents opposing the Japanese… | |
| 间谍 | spy | |
| 谍照 | spy shot; leaked photo of a yet-to-be-released product |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 枼 — compare how they read.