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Kotomora

辱

embarrass, humiliate, shame

JLPTN1StatusJōyō · secondary schoolFrequencyTop 2,000Strokes10

Readings

On'yomi

  • ジョク

Kun'yomi

  • はずかし.める

Meaning

辱 centers on the loss of dignity: being embarrassed, humiliated, or shamed, often through an external action that lowers one's standing.

Most common words using 辱

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  • 侮辱ぶじょく
    N1

    insult; affront; slight; contempt (e.g. of court)

  • 屈辱くつじょく

    disgrace; humiliation

  • 陵辱りょうじょく

    insult; affront; disgrace; indignity

  • 恥辱ちじょく

    disgrace; shame; insult

  • 辱めるはずかしめる

    to humiliate; to disgrace; to put to shame; to insult

  • 雪辱せつじょく

    vindication of honour; vindication of honor; making up for loss; revenge

  • 国辱こくじょく

    national disgrace

  • 汚辱おじょく

    disgrace; humiliation; insult

  • 侮辱的ぶじょくてき

    insulting; offensive

  • 侮辱罪ぶじょくざい

    (crime of) defamation (i.e. slander, libel)

  • 屈辱の日くつじょくのひ

    day of disgrace (in Okinawa; April 28, after the day in 1952 in which the US occupation of mainland Japan, but not Okinawa, ended)

  • 屈辱感くつじょくかん

    sense of humiliation

  • 屈辱的くつじょくてき

    humiliating

  • 忍辱にんにく

    forbearance (in the face of difficulty, persecution, etc.)

  • 栄辱えいじょく

    honor and-or shame (honour)

  • 法廷侮辱ほうていぶじょく

    contempt of court

  • 法廷侮辱罪ほうていぶじょくざい

    (crime of) contempt of court

  • 行者忍辱ぎょうじゃにんにく

    Alpine leek (Allium victorialis var. platyphyllum)

  • 辱めはずかしめ

    shame; disgrace

  • 辱めを受けるはずかしめをうける

    to be humiliated; to be disgraced; to be put to shame; to suffer an insult

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Study

Etymology

辱 combines 辰 (a pictograph of a clam shell, used as a farming tool) and 寸 (hand). The original sense was likely related to manual labor or working the soil, which later extended to the idea of humiliation or disgrace, possibly through the notion of being reduced to menial work.

Meaning mnemonic

The top 辰 looks like a clam shell used as a tool, and the bottom 寸 is a hand. Imagine a hand holding a dirty tool, forced to do degrading work—this is the picture of shame and humiliation.

Reading mnemonic

For ジョク, imagine a joke that backfires and humiliates you: joke -> ジョク, and the embarrassment is like a hand holding a clam shell, a symbol of disgrace.