HSK 6 · Society

诽谤 fěibàng “to slander” in Chinese

Traditional 誹謗

What 诽谤 means

  1. to slander
  2. to libel
  3. defamation

How to say 诽谤

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale诽fěi3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale谤bàng4th tone, falling

诽谤 in a sentence

  1. 但这是诽谤！

    Dàn zhè shì fěibàng!

    But this is slander!

    Sentence #13942378 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 诽谤 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 诽 (fěi) with each of its parts in a different colour
诽fěislander
  • 讠speech form of 言 · yánMeaning part
  • 非wrong · fēiSound part

讠 hints at the meaning (speech); 非 (fēi) hints at the sound. Compare it with fěi.

The character 谤 (bàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
谤bàngto slander
  • 讠speech form of 言 · yánMeaning part
  • 旁side · pángSound part

讠 hints at the meaning (speech); 旁 (páng) hints at the sound. Compare it with bàng.

How to write 诽谤

诽 10 strokes · 谤 12 strokes

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诽谤 (fěibàng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 诽谤 (fěibàng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

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FAQs

诽谤 (fěibàng) means “to slander” or “to libel”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it fěibàng: fěi with a 3rd tone, then bàng with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 诽谤 is written 誹謗. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type feibang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 诽谤 from the suggestions. Typing feibang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
诽谤 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.