Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
ten, complete
Parts:
Variants:
lowly, base, vile, vulgar, despise
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2003 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 卑劣 【ヒレツ】 mean, contemptible, despicable, dirty, foul, cowardly, base
  • 卑怯 【ヒキョウ】 cowardly, craven, unfair, mean, sneaky, dirty, dastardly
  • 男尊女卑 【ダンソンジョヒ】 male domination of women, male chauvinism, subjection of women
  • 野卑 【ヤヒ】 vulgar, mean, base, coarse, crude

Kun reading compounds

  • 卑しい 【いやしい】 lowborn, humble, lowly, vulgar, coarse, crude, mean, base, vile, despicable, dirty, unfair, shabby, poor-looking, greedy, gluttonous, avaricious
  • 卑しい生まれ 【いやしいうまれ】 lowborn, of humble birth
  • 卑しむ 【いやしむ】 to despise, to disdain, to scorn, to hold in contempt, to look down on
  • 卑しむべき 【いやしむべき】 despicable
  • 卑しめる 【いやしめる】 to demean, to despise, to treat with contempt, to abase

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bei1
Korean:
bi

Spanish

  • humilde
  • vulgar
  • vil
  • despreciable
  • despreciar
  • desdeñar

Portuguese

  • humilde
  • ordinário
  • vil
  • vulgar

French

  • humble
  • ignoble
  • vil
  • vulgaire
1727 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
2041 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
221 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1795 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1110 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
976 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1521 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1622 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1770 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
248 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3270 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1688 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2295 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1525 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
2738X Morohashi
2642 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
618 New Nelson (John Haig)
1511 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1629 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1235 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
855 2001 Kanji
5f4.8 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-3 SKIP code
2640.0 Four corner code
1-40-60 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5351 Unicode hex code

9 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
vulgar, customs, manners, worldliness, mundane things
On:
ゾク
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1610 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 俗 【ゾク】 layman (esp. as opposed to a Buddhist monk), laity, man of the world, the world, local manners, modern customs, common, popular, vulgar, low
  • 俗語 【ゾクゴ】 colloquialism, colloquial language, slang
  • 民俗 【ミンゾク】 folk customs, folkways, ethnic customs
  • 低俗 【テイゾク】 vulgar, lowbrow, coarse

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
su2
Korean:
sog

Spanish

  • vulgar
  • ordinario
  • costumbres
  • modales
  • maneras

Portuguese

  • vulgar
  • costumes
  • maneiras
  • coisas do mundanas

French

  • vulgaire
  • coutumes
  • manières
  • temporel
  • séculier
834 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
925 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1498 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
453 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
544 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1051 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
776 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1126 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1178 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1243 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
100 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
119 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
79 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
88 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
977 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
695 Morohashi
104 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
220 New Nelson (John Haig)
968 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1042 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1231 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2177 2001 Kanji
2a7.17 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-7 SKIP code
2826.8 Four corner code
1-34-15 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4fd7 Unicode hex code