漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
侮: scorn, despise
Also: make light of, contempt
JLPT N18 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
亻 carries the meaning · 毎 gives the sound
8 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
ブbu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 侮辱するぶじょくするtreat with contempt, insult
- 侮蔑するぶべつするscorn, disdain
- 軽侮するけいぶするscorn
- 侮辱ぶじょく
- 侮蔑ぶべつ
あなどるanadoru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 侮るあなどるdespise, disdain, make light of
Also read あなずる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
毎
Also built on every (毎)
The 毎 family reads カイ (kai); 侮 is read ブ.
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side侮 scorn · 亻
vs悔 repent · 忄In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · wǔ
Same form: 侮 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 侮 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 侮 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin wǔ most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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