侮 (mou5 | wu3) : insult, bully

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侮

mou5

wu3

[1] insult; bully; humiliate
[2] aggression and oppression

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Additional PoS:

Stroke count: 8

Level: 3

Radical: 亻 (#9)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

侮

This word has been viewed 2837 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 24th Sep 2009 16:01

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侮辱 mou5 juk6 wu3 ru4 = insult; humiliate; affront

欺侮 hei1 mou5 qi1 wu3 = to bully

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園主又打發了另一個僕人去，他們也把那人打了，並加以侮辱，放他空手回去。國
And again he (the lord of the vinyard) sent another servant. But they beat him also. They humiliated him, sent him away empty handed. (Luke 20:11)

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Decimal representation of this word: 侮
Unicode code for this character: U+4fae (off-site link)

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