Kanji

Stroke count: 15

Meaning: despise, low-life, poverty

Kunyomi: いや.しい いや.しむ しず やす.い

Onyomi: セン ゼン

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: shell

Examples

Onyomi Examples

シズ lowly person, lowliness, I

賎業婦 センギョウフ prostitute

貧富貴 ヒンプキセン rich and poor, high and low, people of all ranks

下賎 ゲセン low birth, humble origin, lowly, base, vulgar, coarse

Kunyomi Examples

卑しい いやしい lowborn, humble, lowly, vulgar, coarse, crude, mean, base, vile, shabby, greedy, gluttonous, avaricious

卑しむ いやしむ to despise, to disdain, to scorn, to hold in contempt, to look down on

卑しむべき いやしむべき despicable

しず lowly person, lowliness, I

しずとり lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)