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The character for falsehood, 谎, finds its origin in the traditional form 謊, constructed as a phono-semantic compound where the speech radical 言 semantically categorizes it as related to verbal expression, while the component 荒 offers both a phonetic cue and a conceptual layer implying barrenness, desolation, or something contrary to fact. This structural pairing conceptually frames a lie as speech that is essentially vacant or divorced from reality. Over time, the meaning of 謊 shifted from earlier, broader associations with unreliability or fabrication in language to settle more specifically on the notion of an intentional and knowing untruth, a semantic refinement that remained anchored to its enduring etymological composition.
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你不要说谎。
这是一个谎言。
他经常说谎话。
说谎是不好的行为。
她承认自己说了谎。
他的谎言被揭穿了。
为了掩盖错误，他编造了一个谎言。
如果你继续说谎，没有人会再相信你。