Kanji Detail for 賤 - "lowly, cheap, despise"

賤

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning

賤 means "lowly, cheap, despise."
1. Lowly - Vulgar; of low status.
2. Cheap - Inexpensive.
3. Despise - To look down upon.
4. Humble - Poor; simple (Japanese usage).
Four-character idioms with 賤
- 貧富貴賤ひんぷきせん rich and poor, high and low; people of all ranks
- 貴賤上下きせんしょうか high and low; (people of) all ranks and classes
- 貴賤貧富きせんひんぷ high and low, and rich and poor
Dictionary Citations

The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

despise; low-life; poverty

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

mean, low; cheap, worthless

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

inexpensive; lowly; despicable; (bound form) (humble) my

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

cheap, low, mean, worthless

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

The opposite of 貴 (noble). All being in a low position is called 賤. Such as rank, price, quality, etc. See "貴."
Onyomi

sen(セン)

zen(ゼン)
Kunyomi

iya.shii(いや-しい)

iya.shimu(いや-しむ)

shizu(しず)

yasu.i(やす-い)
Strokes

15 strokes
Radical

貝 (kai・kaihen・kogai)
Related Keywords

lowly cheap despise humble base inferior low status

爵位があるから、貴族だというわけにはいかないんだぜ。爵位が無くても、天爵というものを持っている立派な貴族のひともあるし、おれたちのように爵位だけは持っていても、貴族どころか、賤民にちかいのもいる。
It's not because you have a title, that you're a noble. There are people who have a natural nobility and are fine nobles. People like us who only have nobility titles are not nobles, we're more like peasants.