(shòu) - to receive, to suffer, to bear in Mandarin
shòuTraditional: 受
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.
- Origin
- ideographic
- Root
- 爪 (hand above) + 又 (hand below) passing an object
Stroke order
受
Examples
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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。
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.
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Appears in 7 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 受.
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