Meanings

Lowly, Base, Vile, Vulgar

Radicals

十

Decomposition

⿱白十

Etymology

Ideographic: A hand 又(altered) holding an empty shell 甲 (altered)

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 9

Stroke Order

1 diagonal right-to-left

2 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

3 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

4 vertical right-to-left

5 horizontal bottom-to-top

6 horizontal bottom-to-top

7 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

8 horizontal bottom-to-top

9 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ヒ hi

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

いや iya

Words Using This Kanji

32 words total

Other (12 words)

卑湿ひしつ

low and damp (land)

卑しい生まれいやしいうまれ

lowborn

官尊民卑かんそんみんぴ

putting the officials and bureaucrats above the people

女尊男卑じょそんだんぴ

placing women above men

lineal descendant

despicable

contempt

respectable

high and low class

Xianbei (ancient nomadic tribe of northern Asia)

卑下自慢ひげじまん

boasting of one's humility

卑下も自慢の中ひげもじまんのうち

taking pride in one's humility is a form of bragging

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