This character 毚 'cunning hare' survives as the phonetic in 谗 'to slander'.
Tips
history
毚 is not used independently in modern Chinese. It survives almost entirely as the phonetic element in 谗 (to slander), 馋 (greedy / gluttonous), and 搀 (to support by the arm; to mix in). It originally pictured a wily, fast hare.
register
Archaic and literary only; today seen only in etymology notes and as the shared phonetic of its character family, not in speech.
Components
ideograph
毚chán
cunning hare
Treated as one unit: it stacks an archaic clawed-animal graph over 兔 (hare) to depict a swift, cunning hare. The upper element no longer functions as an independent teaching component, so the whole is read as a single fused phonetic graph.
Filed under radical 比 (bǐ) by convention. 比 is not a separate component in 毚, so no strokes are highlighted.
