This logogram is of ideographic origin and it was designed to evoke:

To start 言 a witch-hunt 巫; 巫 also provides the pronunciation

  • 誣 to slander, to defame; a false accusation wū
    • 言 words, speech; to speak, to say yán
    • 巫 wizard, sorcerer, witch, shaman wū
      • 工 labor, work; laborer, worker gōng
      • 从 from, by, since, whence, through cóng
        • 人 man, person; people rén

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