侮辱

wǔ rǔ · HSK 7

to insult

👎 侮 insult + 辱 disgrace; two shame-words doubled into one strong put-down

Both characters already mean to shame, so 侮辱 stacks them for force. 侮 carries the 亻person radical (a person doing the shaming); 辱 is the older word for disgrace. Sound: wǔ rǔ, a short woo-roo pair.

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