Pre-Level 1

Meaning

Kanji 賤

despise

despise, low-life, poverty

Stroke Order
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Readings

Kunyomi 訓読み
いや.しいいや.しむしずやす.い
Onyomi 音読み
センゼン
Nanori 名乗り
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Variant: (Legal Form) , 贱 (Itaiji)

Jōyō
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JLPT
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Frequency
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Strokes
15
Radical
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Components
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Kanji Kentei
Pre-Level 1
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Related vocabulary

Showing 13 common entries

Showing 13 of 24 entries that include this kanji.

賤しい

いやしい

shabby

しず

I

賤の女

しずのめ

woman of lowly birth

賤女

せんじょ

lowly woman

賤称

せんしょう

depreciatory name

賤鳥

しずとり

lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)

賤吏

せんり

low-ranking official

五色の賤

ごしきのせん

five lowly castes of the ritsuryō system

五賤

ごせん

five lowly castes of the ritsuryō system

貧富貴賤

ひんぷきせん

rich and poor, high and low

貴賤結婚

きせんけっこん

morganatic marriage (marriage of a noble and a commoner that disallows the passage of title, possessions, etc.)

貴賤上下

きせんしょうか

high and low

Example sentences

5 reference sentences

人を身分でしむべきではない。

We should not despise people because of their status.

彼はしい言い方を嫌っている。

He dislikes vulgar and low mannered speech.

昔はしい身分の人々が差別されることもあった。

In the past, people of low status were sometimes discriminated against.

その村は長いあいだしさに苦しんできた。

That village has long suffered from poverty.

先生は、が見下すことや低い身分を表す字だと説明した。

The teacher explained that this character refers to despising others or to low status.