侮

侮 U+4FAE, 侮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4FAE ← 侭 [U+4FAD] CJK Unified Ideographs 侯 → [U+4FAF]

侮 U+FA30, 侮 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA30 ← 隷 [U+FA2F] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 僧 → [U+FA31]

侮 U+2F805, 侮 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F805 ← 你 [U+2F804] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 侻 → [U+2F806]

Translingual

Han character

侮 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+7 in Chinese, 人+6 in Japanese, 9 strokes in Chinese, 8 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 人人田卜 (OOWY), four-corner 2825₇, composition ⿰亻每(GHTKV) or ⿰亻毎(J))

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 103, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 629
• Dae Jaweon: page 218, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 163, character 1
• Unihan data for U+4FAE

• Unihan data for U+FA30

• Unihan data for U+2F805

Chinese

simp. and trad.		侮
alternative forms		㑄 ancient 㚢 ancient 𠆸

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 侮
Bronze inscriptions b12382 Small seal script s05862 Transcribed ancient scripts L15036 L15040 L15041 L15042 L15043 L15037 L15038 L15039
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 人 (“person”) + phonetic 每 (OC *mɯːʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wǔ (wu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁵
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bú

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wǔ
    • Wade–Giles: wu³
    • Yale: wǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuu
    • Palladius: у (u)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: mou⁵
    • Yale: móuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: mou⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bú
    • Tâi-lô: bú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: buo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /bu⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bu⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bu⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /bu⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bu⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: mjuX

Rime
Character	侮
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	文甫切
Baxter	mjuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mɨoX/
Pan Wuyun	/mioX/
Shao Rongfen	/mioX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/muə̆X/
Li Rong	/mioX/
Wang Li	/mĭuX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mi̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mou5

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m(r)oʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	侮
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ mjuX ›
Old Chinese	/*m(r)oʔ/
English	insult (v.)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Definitions

侮

1. to insult; to ridicule; to disgrace

   • 陛下慢而侮人，項羽仁而愛人。然陛下使人攻城略地，所降下者因以予之，與天下同利也。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     陛下慢而侮人，项羽仁而爱人。然陛下使人攻城略地，所降下者因以予之，与天下同利也。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     Bìxià màn ér wǔ rén, Xiàng Yǔ rén ér ài rén. Rán bìxià shǐ rén gōng chéng lüè dì, suǒ jiàngxià zhě yīn yǐ yǔ zhī, yǔ tiānxià tóng lì yě. [Pinyin]

     Your Majesty is arrogant and insults others; Xiang Yu was benevolent and loved others. But when Your Majesty sent people to attack fortresses and seize lands, Your Majesty granted them what they had conquered. Your Majesty shared your profits with the world.

Compounds

• 不侮暗室
• 人必自侮而後人侮之 / 人必自侮而后人侮之 (rén bì zìwǔ érhòu rén wǔ zhī)
• 侵侮
• 侮慢 (wǔmàn)
• 侮手
• 侮手侮腳 / 侮手侮脚
• 侮蔑 (wǔmiè)
• 侮辱
• 公然侮辱
• 共禦外侮 / 共御外侮
• 卑侮
• 外侮 (wàiwǔ)
• 折衝禦侮 / 折冲御侮
• 欺侮 (qīwǔ)
• 狎侮
• 禦侮 / 御侮 (yùwǔ)
• 自侮
• 輕侮 / 轻侮 (qīngwǔ)

References

• “侮”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–