lowly, base, vile, vulgar, despise
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 is thought to depict a hand holding a lowly object or a servant's tool, conveying the idea of low status. The exact historical development is uncertain.
The top looks like a head bowed down, and the bottom 十 suggests a cross or mark of lowliness. Picture a servant bowing low, marked as base and vulgar.
For ヒ, imagine a lowly servant being hit (ヒ) as a sign of contempt: the sound 'hit' cues ヒ while the servant cowers in a lowly position.
cowardly; craven
indecent; obscene
mean; contemptible; despicable; dirty; foul; cowardly; base
lowborn; humble; lowly
servile; subservient; obsequious; slavish; self-abasing; grovelling; spineless
self-abasement; self-depreciation; humility
male domination of women; male chauvinism; subjection of women
to become vulgar; to coarsen
placing women above men
vulgar; coarse; low
petty; trifling
vulgarity; coarseness; crudeness
lowborn; of humble birth
respectable; decent
contempt
to despise; to disdain; to scorn; to hold in contempt; to look down on
despicable
to demean; to despise; to treat with contempt; to abase
taking pride in one's humility is a form of bragging; he that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted; too much humility is pride
boasting of one's humility