fěi

slander

words (讠) + wrong (非) = slanderous speech

讠marks this as something spoken; 非 gives the sound fěi and carries a secondary sense of wrongness or negation, which fits slander well even if its role here is primarily phonetic.

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SpeechSemantic
NotPhonetic

他说的那些话是对我的谤。

tā shuō de nà xiē huà shì duì wǒ de fěibàng。

those words he said were slander against me.

在网上散布谤他人的内容是违法的。

zài wǎng shàng sànbù fěibàng tārén de nèiróng shì wéifǎ de。

spreading slanderous content about others online is illegal.

Words with 诽

腹诽

fù fěi

silent curse or disagreement

诽闻

fěi wén

scandal

诽谤

fěi bàng

to slander

More characters with 讠