Don't go around mocking and slandering others behind their backs.
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usage
Two flavors: 讪笑 (to laugh at / sneer) and 讪谤 (to slander). But 讪讪 means 'embarrassed, sheepish' — the face you make when caught out, as in 讪讪地走开 (slink off in embarrassment).
Speech radical on the left, side-form of 言. It marks an act of words — here mocking or slanderous speech. Same family as 讽 to satirize, 谤 to defame, 讥 to taunt.
Right side 山 supplies the sound (shān → shàn, a tone shift). It is purely phonetic; the mountain shape carries no meaning into this 'to ridicule' word.
