辱
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disgrace; dishonor; to insult; to bring disgrace or humiliation to; to be indebted to; self-deprecating; Taiwan pr. [ru4]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 辰 +3
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 辱
- Common rank
- #2,018
- Unicode
- U+8FB1
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 辱
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 自取其辱 | (idiom) to embarrass oneself | |
| 丧权辱国 | to forfeit sovereignty and humiliate the country (idiom); to surrender territory under hum… | |
| 点名羞辱 | to attack publicly; to stage a denunciation campaign | |
| 忍辱求全 | to endure humiliation to preserve unity | |
| 忍辱负重 | to endure humiliation as part of an important mission (idiom); to suffer in silence | |
| 奇耻大辱 | (idiom) a great humiliation; a huge embarrassment | |
| 辱华 | to insult China (by criticizing its policies or boycotting its goods) | |
| 荣辱与共 | (of friends or partners) to share both the honor and the disgrace (idiom) | |
| 忍辱偷生 | to bear humiliation to save one's skin (idiom) | |
| 荣辱观 | precepts regarding what is honorable and what is shameful (in particular, refers to the So… | |
| 受辱 | insulted; humiliated; disgraced | |
| 折辱 | (literary) to humiliate; to demean | |
| 刑辱 | to humiliate by torture | |
| 胯下之辱 | (lit.) the humiliation of having to crawl between the legs of one's adversary (as Han Xin … | |
| 荡妇羞辱 | to slut-shame | |
| 荣辱 | honor and disgrace; reputation | |
| 污辱 | to humiliate; to insult; to tarnish; to sully | |
| 淫辱 | fornication and insults; to rape and insult | |
| 辱骂 | to insult; to revile; abuse; vituperation | |
| 屈辱 | to humiliate; humiliating |
Sound family
These characters use 辱 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 辱 sound part | to insult, to humiliate, to abuse | |
| 褥 | mattress, cushion; bedding | |
| 缛 | elegant, decorative, adorned | |
| 蓐 | straw mat; rushes, reeds | |
| 溽 | moist; humid, muggy | |
| 耨 | to hoe, to rake; to weed |