鄙
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rustic; low; base; mean; to despise; to scorn
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 邑 +11
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 鄙
- Common rank
- #2,244
- Unicode
- U+9119
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 鄙 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
阝 meaning “village” + 啚 sound
Components 啚 阝
How to remember it
despicable · Heisig RSH #2805
口 mouth + needle + 回 return + city walls
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 鄙
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 鄙人 | your humble servant; I | |
| 可鄙 | base; mean; despicable | |
| 鄙视链 | a ranking of items in a particular category, with the most highly regarded on top (neologi… | |
| 鄙见 | (my) humble opinion; humble idea | |
| 边鄙 | remote; border area | |
| 鄙视 | to despise; to disdain; to look down upon | |
| 鄙称 | derogatory term | |
| 卑鄙无耻 | (idiom) shameless; despicable; devoid of integrity | |
| 鄙薄 | to despise; to scorn | |
| 鄙俗 | vulgar; philistine | |
| 粗鄙 | vulgar; coarse; uncouth | |
| 鄙弃 | to disdain; to loathe | |
| 贪鄙 | to be avaricious and mean | |
| 鄙夷 | to despise; to look down on; to feel contempt for | |
| 卑鄙 | base; mean; contemptible; despicable | |
| 鄙斥 | (literary) to censure; to rebuke | |
| 鄙贱 | lowly; despicable; to despise | |
| 鄙劣 | base; mean; despicable | |
| 芜鄙 | muddled and limited (of writing) | |
| 鄙陋 | superficial; shallow |