Kanji1 / 9
卑 kanji
lowly, base, vile, vulgar, despise
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ヒ
Kun readings
いやしいいやしむいやしめる
Variant forms
卑Words with 卑
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —鮮卑Xianbei (ancient nomadic tribe of northern Asia)
- —下卑るto become vulgar; to coarsen
- —卑金属base metal
- —卑劣漢mean bastard; sneak; heel; despicable person
- —卑怯者coward; chicken; yellow-belly; sneaky person; underhanded person; dastardly person
- —卑罵語pejorative term; derogatory word; invective
- —官尊民卑putting the officials and bureaucrats above the people; treating the governors as more important than the governed; statism
- —女尊男卑placing women above men
- —直系卑属lineal descendant
- —卑怯千万very mean (sneaky); extremely unsportsmanlike
- —卑下自慢boasting of one's humility
- —卑下も自慢の中taking pride in one's humility is a form of bragging; he that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted; too much humility is pride
- —卑怯な手を使うto play a dirty trick; to use underhanded methods; to hit below the belt; to play foul
- —卑言vulgar expression; vulgarism; language used in rural areas
- —卑賤low class; lowly (position); humble (condition)
- —卑屬lineal descendants
- —卑懐one's own thought; one's own idea
- —卑諺vulgar proverb; popular saying
- —卑人countryfolk; villager; provincial; greedy person; underclass; low-standing person
- —卑わいindecent; obscene