粗暴
cū bào · HSK 7
rough
💢👊 cū bào = coarse + violent — rough and cruel combined
粗 (cū) means coarse or rough in texture, 暴 (bào) means violent or fierce. Together they form a word describing someone who is brutally rough — think of a bully shoving people around with zero care.
粗 — rice 米 + crude/rough 且
A semantic-phonetic compound. The left 米 (rice) hints at the meaning, since unhulled or coarsely milled rice is rough and grainy. The right 且 supplies the sound. From 'coarse rice' the meaning extended to 'thick, rough, crude' in general.