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漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food

蔑: ignore, despise

Also: neglect, ridicule

N1 (our estimate)14 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

艹 carries the meaning · 罒 and 戍 are drawn in

14 strokes
  • Oracle bone · Shang
  • Bronze · Western Zhou
  • Today

Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Two readings, and the words that use each

ベツbetsu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 軽蔑けいべつcontempt; scorn; disdain
  • 侮蔑ぶべつ
  • 蔑視べっしcontempt; derision; slight

さげすむsagesumu · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 蔑むさげすむto scorn; to despise; to hold in contempt

Also read ないがしろ, なみする, くらい, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Grass growing on top! Like a green crown upon the earth, this radical sits above kanji related to flowers, herbs, and vegetation.”
More in the 艹 grass story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
艹

Also built on grass (艹)

All 74
罒

Also built on eye (罒)

All 13
戍

Also built on 戍

Also read ベツ

1 kanji shares this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
蔑 ignore · 戍
vs夢 dream · 冖 + 夕
蔑 has 戍 where 夢 has 冖 + 夕.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · miè

Same form: 蔑 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
蔑 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
蔑 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin miè 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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