Kanji Detail for 鄙 - "administrative unit, countryside, vulgar, despise"

鄙

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
鄙 means "administrative unit, countryside, vulgar, despise."
1. Administrative unit - A Zhou dynasty division of 500 households.
2. Countryside - Rural areas.
3. Vulgar - Rustic; provincial; unrefined.
4. Despise - To look down upon.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

lowly; the country; the countryside; be countrified

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

mean; low

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

rustic; low; base; mean; to despise; to scorn

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

rustic, vulgar; to despise, to scorn

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

A border settlement. As in 四境 (four borders) is also called 四鄙. | Vulgar or crude. As in 鄙夫 (vulgar man), 卑鄙 (base). Being stingy with money is called 鄙吝. To look down on is also called 鄙. As in 深鄙其人 (deeply despise that person). | A humble self-reference. As in 鄙見 (my humble view), 鄙意 (my humble opinion). Self-reference is 鄙人 (this humble person).
Onyomi

hi(ひ)
Kunyomi

hina(ひな)

iya.shii(いやしい)
Strokes

18 strokes
Radical

邑阝 (ozato・mura)
Related Keywords
administrative unit zhou dynasty division households countryside rural areas vulgar rustic provincial unrefined despise look

誰もこんな辺鄙な村に我々を訪ねてこない。
Nobody ever comes to see us in this out-of-the-way village.