to mock / to ridicule / to slander

讪 character breakdown

surname Shan
mountain / hill / anything that resembles a mountain / CL:座[zuo4] / bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons / gable

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 山 looks like the tip of a fork. Sherlock Holmes (sh) is climbing a mountain (山) in front of the anthill (an1). He uses a dinosaur bone (〡) as walking stick, and to have better grip he attached a fork (山) to its tip. Unfortunately he accidentally sticks the fork into a receptacle (凵) on the ground of the mountain and gets shocked.
"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]

Mnemonic symbol: this character looks like a big "i" (like in information), and I'll represent it by an advertising column. Maud Younger (y) gives a speech (讠) standing on top of an advertising column (讠) in the anthill's kitchen (an2).

Characters with 讪 as component

讪 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 讪

to hit on someone / to strike up a conversation / to start talking to end an awkward silence or embarrassing situation
to ridicule / to mock
variant of 搭訕|搭讪[da1 shan4]

Sentences with 讪

讪 currently does not appear in any sentence.