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谎huǎng

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谎

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Shuowen

Falsehood. The character combines 言 (speech) with 荒 (meaning wild, desolate, hence unreasonable or unfounded). Together they depict false or unreasonable speech—the act of lying. The 言 radical anchors the meaning to verbal expression, while 荒 supplies the sense of that which is baseless or untrue.

Pinyin

huǎng· HSK 2