谣
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popular ballad; rumor
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 言 +10
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 謠
- Common rank
- #2,866
- Unicode
- U+8C23
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Formation & memory
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How 谣 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
讠 meaning “speech” + 䍃 sound ()
Components 讠 䍃
How to remember it
rumor · Heisig RSH #2886
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Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 谣
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 造谣生事 | to start rumours and create trouble | |
| 大谣 | high-profile rumormonger (esp. on a microblog) | |
| 谣言惑众 | to mislead the public with rumors; to delude the people with lies | |
| 黄谣 | sexual rumor (abbr. for 黃色謠言|黄色谣言[huang2 se4 yao2 yan2]) | |
| 民谣 | ballad; folk song | |
| 谣言 | rumor | |
| 传谣 | to spread rumors | |
| 谣传 | rumor | |
| 造谣 | to start a rumor | |
| 歌谣 | folksong; ballad; nursery rhyme | |
| 童谣 | nursery rhyme | |
| 辟谣 | to refute a rumor; to deny |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 䍃 — compare how they read.