to censure / to reprimand

= + : The Queen of Hearts (qi) finds a dispatch (遣) has been posted to the anthill's (an3) advertising column (讠) scolding (谴) her reign. Angrily the tears down the dispatch and puts on her own one threatening with punishment (谴) to anyone who posts a dispatch criticizing (谴) her reign.

譴 character breakdown

words / speech / to say / to talk

= + + : The horizontal lines look like sound waves that emerge from an opening: I'll resemble 言 by a megaphone.

= + + : Maud Younger rushes into anthill and in the kitchen she uses a megaphone to loudly announce that the world revolution will soon start. She also tells the people that she has berets for everyone so that everyone will be able to be in style for the revolution. However she doesn't tell that she prepared the berets in another way: to each beret, she attached a mandarin via two capacitors which forms a formidable antenna, so that after the revolution, she'll be able to transmit her speeches directly to the wearers' brains.
(bound form) to dispatch; to send / (bound form) to drive away; to dispel

= + : The Queen of Hearts (qi) wants to get a coat made out of mosquitoes, so she dispatches (遣) the bounty hunter (追) to go hunt mosquitoes (虫) for her in the anthill (an3).

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a dispatch (ger. "Depesche", the old fashioned letter).

Characters with 譴 as component

譴 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 譴

to denounce / to condemn / to criticize / condemnation / criticism
the wrath of Heaven / imperial displeasure
to blame oneself / self-recrimination
variant of 呵譴|呵谴[he1 qian3]
variant of 譴訶|谴诃[qian3 he1]
novel of denunciation (according to Lu Xun's 魯迅|鲁迅[Lu3 Xun4] classification)

Sentences with 譴

譴 currently does not appear in any sentence.