辱 (rǔ): disgrace, dishonor, to insult
辱 (rǔ) is a Chinese character meaning “disgrace.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 辰 (structural) and 寸 (structural). It ranks #1885 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Definitions
- disgrace
- dishonor
- to insult
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 侮辱 | wǔ rǔ | to insult |
| 羞辱 | xiū rǔ | to humiliate |
| 耻辱 | chǐ rǔ | disgrace |
| 辱骂 | rǔ mà | to insult |
| 屈辱 | qū rǔ | to humiliate |
| 污辱 | wū rǔ | to humiliate |
| 受辱 | shòu rǔ | insulted |
| 凌辱 | líng rǔ | to insult |
| 奇耻大辱 | qí chǐ dà rǔ | (idiom) a great humiliation |
| 忍辱负重 | rěn rǔ fù zhòng | to endure humiliation as part of an important mission (idiom) |
| 荣辱与共 | róng rǔ yǔ gòng | (of friends or partners) to share both the honor and the disgrace (idiom) |
| 丧权辱国 | sàng quán rǔ guó | to forfeit sovereignty and humiliate the country (idiom) |
| 荣辱 | róng rǔ | honor and disgrace |
| 自取其辱 | zì qǔ qí rǔ | (idiom) to embarrass oneself |
| 忍辱求全 | rěn rǔ qiú quán | to endure humiliation to preserve unity |
辱 appears in 28 compound words: 7 as the first character, 68 as the last, and 25 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 辱 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (10)
Showing 9 of 10 idioms containing 辱.
Example Sentences
老师教我们辱字的发音和笔顺。
lǎo shī jiào wǒ men rǔ zì de fā yīn hé bǐ shùn .
The teacher taught us the pronunciation and stroke order of the character "辱."
河北一场演出中歌手遭观众辱骂后用话筒打人
hé běi yī chǎng yǎn chū zhōng gē shǒu zāo guàn zhòng rǔ mà hòu yòng huà tǒng dǎ rén
At a concert in Hebei, a singer struck a member of the audience with a microphone after being verbally abused
高雄某国小爆家长闯校冲突 涉掐脖辱骂学童遭送办
gāo xióng mǒu guó xiǎo bào jiā cháng chuǎng jiào chōng tū shè qiā bó rǔ mà xué tóng zāo sòng bàn
A parent stormed into a Kaohsiung elementary school, leading to a confrontation; the individual was referred to authorities for allegedly choking and verbally abusing a student
...沦为政治斗争的廉价工具,是这代台湾人的耻辱
. . . 沦 wéi zhèng zhì dǒu zhēng de lián jià gōng jù , shì zhè dài tái wān rén de chǐ rǔ
... It is a shame for this generation of Taiwanese to become a cheap tool for political struggle
...月付3万打发”罹癌经纪人又被惹火:这是侮辱
. . . yuè fù 3 wàn dǎ fā 罹 ái jīng jì rén yòu bèi rě huǒ : zhè shì wǔ rǔ
... Pay 30,000 yuan a month to send "the agent with cancer was angry again: this is an insult."
GD故意辱华?拜年不讲Chinese New Ye...
G D gù yì rǔ huá ? bài nián bù jiǎng C h i n e s e N e w Y e . . .
GD deliberately insulted China? New Year's greetings don't talk about Chinese New Ye...
我觉得士可杀不可辱。
Wǒ juéde shì kě shā bù kě rǔ.
I think death is preferable to shame.
我不是想要羞辱你。
Wǒ bù shì xiǎng yào xiūrǔ nǐ.
I didn't want to humiliate you.
汤姆没想侮辱谁。
Tāngmǔ méi xiǎng wǔrǔ shéi.
Tom didn't mean to insult anybody.
Character Family
辰 Radical Family — Characters sharing the morning radical
Related Characters
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