Chinese symbol for “malign”
毁谤
huǐ bàng
Traditional: 毀謗
slander; libel; to malign; to disparage
The closest CC-CEDICT match for malign is 毁谤 (huǐ bàng), defined as: slander; libel; to malign; to disparage.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “malign”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 毁谤.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 摧毁 (摧毀) | cuī huǐ | to destroy; to wreck |
| 毁灭 (毀滅) | huǐ miè | to perish; to ruin |
| 烧毁 (燒燬) | shāo huǐ | to destroy (or be destroyed) by fire |
| 销毁 (銷毀) | xiāo huǐ | to destroy (by melting or burning); to obliterate |
| 坠毁 (墜毀) | zhuì huǐ | (of an airplane etc) to fall to the ground and crash |
| 毁坏 (毀壞) | huǐ huài | to damage; to devastate |
| 诽谤 (誹謗) | fěi bàng | to slander; to libel |
See also: Japanese symbol for “malign”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.