Taxonomy of meanings for 侮:　　

  • 侮 wǔ (OC: moʔ MC: mio) 文甫切 上 廣韻：【侮慢也侵也輕也 】
    • HUMILIATE
      • nabactpassive: humiliation
      • vt+prep+Nto treat someone with disrespect
      • vtoNtreat in a humiliating way, typically publicly
      • vtoNN=personhumiliate and insult; treat with disrespect
      • vtoNcausativecause others to be impolite to (oneself)
    • IMPOLITE
      • nabactlack of polite diligence
      • vadNlacking in polite respect
      • vt[oN]be impolite
      • vtoNtreat impolitely; fail to show due respect towards
      • vtoNpassivebe treated with insufficient respect
      • vibe rudeCH
    • SHAME
      • vifeel objectively humiliated and insulted
      • nabsocialpublic disgrace, shame
    • OPPRESS
      • vtoNoppressTWH

    Additional information about 侮

    說文解字: 【侮】，傷也。从人、每聲。 【文甫切】 【㑄】、古文从母。

      Criteria
    • IMPOLITE

      1. The standard word for public impoliteness is wǔ 侮 which enters surprisingly often into descriptive and perhaps intensitive binomes.

      2. The current philosophically explicit phrase is wú lǐ 無禮

    • HUMILIATE

      1. The general word for personally and demonstratively humiliating and insulting a person is wǔ 侮 (ant. lǐ 禮 "treat politely, show proper politeness towards").

      2. Rǔ 辱 stresses in the notion of humiliating insult that of demonstratively inflicting a lasting public disgrace.

      3. Xiū 羞 is occasionally used to refer to reducing someone to personal and intimate feelings of personal shame.

      Word relations
    • Ant: (HUMILIATE)畏/RESPECT Wèi 畏 (ant. xiá 狎 "treat without the proper respect due to someone in high position, treat with improper familiarity") refers to awe-struck respect for a person in authority.