You Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Speech (yán) 24 Kangxi strokes Page 1187, Entry 01 Pronounced chan. Shuowen Jiezi (Explaining Simple and Analyzing Compound Characters): To slander. Yupian (Jade Chapters): To be a sycophant. Zhengzitong (True Character Guide): To embellish evil speech in order to defame the virtuous and harm the capable. Book of Documents (Shujing), Canon of Shun: I detest slanderous speech and ruinous conduct. Zhuangzi, Fisherman chapter: To take pleasure in speaking of the evils of others is called slander. Xunzi, Self-Cultivation chapter: To injure the virtuous is called slander. Shuoyuan (Garden of Stories), Ministerial Arts chapter: Those who cover up good are the slanderers of the state. Also the name of a star. Book of Jin (Jinshu), Treatise on Astronomy: Among the six stars of the Rolled Tongue, one is called Heavenly Slander, which governs shamans and healers. Also the name of a tripod. Zuo Tradition (Zuo Zhuan), Third Year of Duke Zhao: The inscription on the Slander Tripod. Commentary: The Slander Tripod is a vessel for recording the detestation of slander; it is the same as the Chong Tripod mentioned in the Mingtang Wei. Another view is that Slander is the name of a place. Yu the Great cast the Nine Tripods at the land of Ganchan, hence it is called the Slander Tripod. Also pronounced chan (falling tone). The meaning is the same. Also pronounced chong (rhyming). Songs of Chu (Chucí), Nine Laments: Inhaling the refined and exhaling the turbid, I stand against a corrupt generation and find no acceptance. I carry out my sincerity without flattery, yet I am pushed aside and encounter slander. Also pronounced yan (rhyming). Liang Hong, Poem on Traveling to Wu: I wish to spur my horse and gallop away, for I despise my generation for creating slander. They vie to promote the crooked and discard the straight, all prioritizing the sycophants who clamor. Yan is pronounced yan. Also, according to the Suoshu Zhengwu (Evidence of Errors in Popular Writing), writing it with two rabbits is incorrect.