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Sign Dragon 辱 ジョク はずかし.める Embarrass Humiliate Shame

Kanji
Onyomi ジョク
Kunyomi はずかし.める
English embarrass, humiliate, shame
Examples 侮辱(ぶじょく): insult; contempt; slight
JLPT Level 1
Jouyou Grade S
Frequency 1769
Components 辰: sign of the dragon; 7-9AM; fifth sign of Chinese zodiac; shin dragon radical (no. 161)
寸: measurement; foot/10
Number of Strokes 10
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 161
Radical Strokes 7
Radical Reading しんのたつ
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 会意 Compound Ideographic
Keyword embarrass
Koohii Story 1 If you get too close to a fire-breathing dragon, your skin can turn red from the burn. When someone is embarrassed, it's as though they have this sign of the dragon stuck to their face.
Koohii Story 2 The sign of the dragon falls off the cliff, to our great embarassment (see sign of the dragon (#2008)) We should have glued it there!
RTK Index 2009

Tags: jlpt.n1, grades, kanjifreq1501-2000

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