受 - Mandarin word #1090

Translation

to receive, to suffer, to bear

Word origin

An ideograph showing a hand 爪 above and a hand 又 below passing an object between them, giving the sense of receiving.

受

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He was seriously injured.

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This matter has received a lot of attention.

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I cannot stand it being so noisy.

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She is very popular.

益yì。

Everyone benefited.

受 (shòu) means to receive, to suffer, to bear. It is a verb for being on the receiving end of something, good or bad.

接受

to accept, to receive, to take on

受伤

to be injured, to be wounded

受不了

cannot bear it, cannot stand it, unbearable

得到

to obtain, to get, to receive

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 受.

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