谎言
huǎng yán · HSK 7
lie
🤥 谎 (deceive) + 言 (words) = deceptive words, a lie
谎 carries the 言 speech radical beside 荒 (huāng, wild/absurd), so a lie is literally absurd speech. Paired again with 言 (words), 谎言 doubles down on the spoken-falsehood sense.