贱 — Chinese character
贱
jiàn
cheap, low, mean, worthless
- Pinyin
- jiàn
- Radical
- 154 ⾙ (Shell)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 贝 戋
- Formation
- ideographic — Costing little 戋 money 贝; 戋 also provides the pronunciation
- Traditional
- 賤
Common words with 贱
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 贱人 (賤人) | jiàn rén | slut; cheap person |
| 贱货 (賤貨) | jiàn huò | bitch; slut |
| 贱民 (賤民) | jiàn mín | social stratum below the level of ordinary people; untouchable |
| 下贱 (下賤) | xià jiàn | humble; lowly |
| 卑贱 (卑賤) | bēi jiàn | lowly; mean and low |
| 低贱 (低賤) | dī jiàn | lowly; humble; cheap; inexpensive |
| 贵贱 (貴賤) | guì jiàn | noble and lowly; high versus low social hierarchy of ruler to people, father to son, husband to wife in Confucianism |
| 贱卖 (賤賣) | jiàn mài | to sell cheaply; sacrifice |
| 贫贱 (貧賤) | pín jiàn | poor and lowly |
| 淫贱 (淫賤) | yín jiàn | morally loose, lewd and low, lascivious and mean; wanton |
| 贱骨头 (賤骨頭) | jiàn gǔ tou | miserable wretch; contemptible individual |
| 微贱 (微賤) | wēi jiàn | humble; lowly |
English words written with 贱
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.