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訛
🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷
讹
🇨🇳

extort

HSK 10
Abstract →Qualities
é
カ
なま.る、なま.り、あやま.る
와
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 化 represents the sound.
Components
Traditional (訛)
言 say+ 化 transform =
訛 extort
言 Meaning component
yán say
words, speech
化 Phonetic component
huà transform
change, convert, reform
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Simplified (讹)
讠 speech+ 化 transform =
讹 swindle
讠 Meaning component
yán speech
KangXi radical 149
讠 is a component form of 言.
化 Phonetic component
huà transform
change, convert, reform
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Notes
Similar Characters
唁 express condolence善 virtuous狺 the snarling of dogs謠 rumor (trad)這 this (trad)信 faith獄 prison (trad/jp)罰 penalize (trad/jp)訂 place an order (trad/jp)訃 obituary (trad/jp)訇 the sound of a crash計 plan (trad/jp)訌 confusion (trad)討 condemn (trad/jp)訓 instruction (trad/jp)訕 slander (trad)訖 stop (trad)託 entrust (trad/jp)記 remember (trad/jp)訚 speak (simp)
Historical Evolution
Bronze Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Bronze
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
讹
Regular
Modern
Chinese
讹 / 訛 [é]
error; false; to extort
Japanese
訛り 、 訛 なまり 同音

noun

  1. usually kana accent (of one's speech)
  2. dialect; provincialism; patois
  3. corrupted form (e.g. of word); mispronunciation
Example Sentences
🇯🇵 (2)
その男はドイツ語なまりの英語を話す。
The man speaks English with a German accent.
トムはいつもジョンの言葉のなまりを理由にからかう。
Tom always makes fun of John because of his dialect.
CHINESE WORDS (8)
讹诈 [é​zhà] #31,860
to extort under false pretenses
以讹传讹 [yǐ​'é​chuán​'é] #56,023
to spread falsehoods
讹传 [é​chuán] #55,541
unfounded rumor
讹误 [é​wù] #59,112
error in a text
讹人 [é​rén] #60,039
to blackmail
讹谬 [é​miù] #71,586
error
差讹 [chā​'é] #74,558
error
讹字 [é​zì]
erroneous character
JAPANESE WORDS (13)
⭐ 訛り [なまり] #28,590
accent (of one's speech)
ダミ声 [だみごえ] #54,286
thick voice
訛る [なまる] #57,232
to speak with an accent
国訛り [くになまり] #117,296
provincial dialect
転訛 [てんか] #119,844
corruption
お国訛り [おくになまり] #170,002
one's native dialect
訛伝 [かでん] #183,943
mistaken account
田舎訛り [いなかなまり] #186,657
provincial accent
訛言 [かげん] #209,315
non-standard pronunciation
訛音 [かおん] #230,314
accent
3 more items
KOREAN WORDS (1)
와전
giving a false report; misinforming