Kanji
N1 10 strokes Grade 8 freq #1769

embarrass, humiliate, shame

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

morning shin

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

disgrace; humiliation
vindication of honour; vindication of honor
insult; affront
disgrace; shame
disgrace; humiliation
insulting; offensive
sense of humiliation
forbearance (in the face of difficulty, persecution, etc.)
(crime of) defamation (i.e. slander, libel)
(crime of) contempt of court

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

to be humiliated; to be disgraced
day of disgrace (in Okinawa; April 28, after the day in 1952 in which the US occupation of mainland Japan, but not Okinawa, ended)
shame; disgrace
to humiliate; to disgrace

Example sentences

He suffered an insult.

Your remark amounts almost to insult.

He was subjected to insult.

His constant insults aroused my anger.