Jisho

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侮

8 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
化 毋 母 乞
Variants:
侮
scorn, despise, make light of, contempt
Kun:
あなど.る、 あなず.る
On:
ブ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2004 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 侮 【ブ】 (something) despised, (something) made light of
  • 侮辱 【ブジョク】 insult, affront, slight, contempt (e.g. of court)
  • 軽侮 【ケイブ】 contempt, scorn

Kun reading compounds

  • 侮る 【あなどる】 to disdain, to look down on, to make light of, to hold in contempt, to scorn, to despise
  • 侮る 【あなどる】 to disdain, to look down on, to make light of, to hold in contempt, to scorn, to despise

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wu3
Korean:
mo

Spanish

  • desprecio
  • menosprecio
  • despreciar
  • menospreciar

Portuguese

  • desdém
  • desprezo
  • desprezar

French

  • mépriser
  • dédaigner
  • prendre à la légère
  • irrespect
1760 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1900 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
421 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1212 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1047 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1736 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1858 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1801 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
91 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
91 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
59 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
63 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
998 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
629P Morohashi
82 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
187 New Nelson (John Haig)
989 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1064 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1151 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2147 2001 Kanji
2a6.20 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-6 SKIP code
2825.7 Four corner code
1-41-78 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4fae Unicode hex code

言

7 strokes
Radical:
speech 言 (訁)
Parts:
言
say, word
Kun:
い.う、 こと
On:
ゲン、 ゴン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
83 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 言 【ゲン】 word, remark, statement
  • 言及 【ゲンキュウ】 reference, allusion
  • 過言 【カゴン】 exaggeration, overstatement, saying too much, misstatement, slip of the tongue, gaffe
  • 狂言 【キョウゲン】 kyogen, farce presented between noh plays or during the interlude of a noh play, kabuki play, kabuki performance, make-believe, ruse, trick
  • 言語 【ゲンゴ】 language
  • 言下 【ゲンカ】 promptly
  • 過言 【カゴン】 exaggeration, overstatement, saying too much, misstatement, slip of the tongue, gaffe
  • 二言 【ニゴン】 double-dealing, double tongue, going back on what one has said, repeating oneself

Kun reading compounds

  • 言う 【いう】 to say, to utter, to declare, to name, to call, to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"), to make a noise
  • 言うまでもない 【いうまでもない】 goes without saying, needless to say, obvious
  • 言 【げん】 word, remark, statement
  • 言葉 【ことば】 language, dialect, word, phrase, expression, term, speech, (manner of) speaking, (use of) language, words, remark, statement, comment, learning to speak, language acquisition
  • 禍言 【まがごと】 ominous word, ill-omened word, misfortune
  • 二言 【ふたこと】 two words, repetition

Readings

Japanese names:
とき
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yan2
Korean:
eon

Spanish

  • palabras
  • decir

Portuguese

  • Dizer
  • palavras

French

  • dire
392 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
118 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
274 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
279 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4309 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
43 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
85 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
439 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.8 Japanese for Busy People
66 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
66 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
203 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1653 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2440 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1233 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1698 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
341 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
35205 Morohashi
1941 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5552 New Nelson (John Haig)
335 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
357 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
44 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
142 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3077 2001 Kanji
7a0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-1-6 SKIP code
0060.1 Four corner code
1-24-32 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8a00 Unicode hex code