谎 huǎng
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 讠 — words, speech
- Made of
- 讠 words, speech 荒 wasteland, desert
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
谎言
huǎngyán
lie; false statement
Characters in this word
言 yán
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 言 — words, speech
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 谎言如果被权力包装成真理，危害会更深。 Huǎngyán rúguǒ bèi quánlì bāozhuāng chéng zhēnlǐ, wēihài huì gèng shēn. If a lie is packaged as truth by power, its harm becomes deeper.
- 一个谎言往往需要更多的谎言来掩盖。 Yí ge huǎngyán wǎngwǎng xūyào gèng duō de huǎngyán lái yǎngài. One lie often needs more lies to cover it up.
- 孩子被朋友的谎言伤了心，一整天没说话。 Háizi bèi péngyou de huǎngyán shāng le xīn, yì zhěng tiān méi shuōhuà. The child was hurt by a friend's lie and did not speak all day.
Related words
- 谎话 huǎnghuà lie; falsehood
- 撒谎 sāhuǎng to lie; to tell lies
- 说谎 shuōhuǎng to lie; to tell a lie
- 语言 yǔyán language
- 发言 fāyán to speak; to make a speech
- 言语 yányǔ speech; words
- 方言 fāngyán dialect
- 自言自语 zìyánzìyǔ to talk to oneself
- 不言而喻 bùyán'éryù self-evident; it goes without saying
- 传言 chuányán rumour; hearsay; it is rumoured
- 代言 dàiyán to endorse; to speak for
- 发言人 fāyánrén spokesperson