卑

Meaning

卑 centers on low status or worth: something base, vulgar, or contemptible. The meanings 'lowly', 'vile', and 'despise' all flow from this idea of looking down on something inferior.

• 卑怯ひきょう
  N2

  cowardly; craven

• 卑猥ひわい

  indecent; obscene

• 卑劣ひれつ
  N1

  mean; contemptible; despicable; dirty; foul; cowardly; base

• 卑しいいやしい
  N1

  lowborn; humble; lowly

• 卑屈ひくつ

  servile; subservient; obsequious; slavish; self-abasing; grovelling; spineless

• 卑下ひげ

  self-abasement; self-depreciation; humility

• 男尊女卑だんそんじょひ

  male domination of women; male chauvinism; subjection of women

• 下卑るげびる

  to become vulgar; to coarsen

• 女尊男卑じょそんだんぴ

  placing women above men

• 卑俗ひぞく

  vulgar; coarse; low

• 卑小ひしょう

  petty; trifling

• 下卑げび

  vulgarity; coarseness; crudeness

• 卑しい生まれいやしいうまれ

  lowborn; of humble birth

• 卑しからぬいやしからぬ

  respectable; decent

• 卑しみいやしみ

  contempt

• 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

• 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; he that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted; too much humility is pride

• 卑下自慢ひげじまん

  boasting of one's humility

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