U+8C24 "谤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8C24 "谤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily means "to slander," "to defame," or "to speak ill of someone." Composed of the radical 讠 (speech) on the left and the phonetic component 旁 (páng) on the right, it conveys the idea of harmful or false verbal accusations. In classical and modern Chinese, this character appears in formal and legal contexts, often associated with damaging someone's reputation through spoken or written words. It is used in phrases such as 诽谤 (fěibàng) meaning "slander" or "libel," and 谤言 (bàngyán) meaning "defamatory remarks," reflecting its role in discussions of ethics, law, and interpersonal conflict.