诩 (xǔ): to brag

Meanings

他总是自诩为专家。

Tā zǒngshì zìxǔ wéi zhuānjiā.

He always boasts of himself as an expert.

别老诩自己多有本事。

Bié lǎo xǔ zìjǐ duō yǒu běnshi.

Don't always brag about how capable you are.

usage

诩 almost always appears in 自诩 ('to boast of oneself'), which carries a clearly critical, mocking tone toward the boaster.

radical

讠 yán

speech; words

讠 is the compressed left-side form of the speech radical 言. Fitting for 诩, which is all about big talk.

phonetic

羽 yǔ

feather; wing

羽 ('feather') supplies the sound, close to yǔ and shifting to xǔ. A memory hook: bragging is empty as a feather, all puff and no weight.

诩 xǔ