The kanji 辱 primarily conveys the meanings of "insult," "humiliation," "dishonor," and "to disgrace." It implies a loss of face, a belittling of someone's dignity, or an experience that causes shame. It often relates to situations where one's reputation or pride is damaged.

・On-yomi (音読み): ジョク (joku) ・Kun-yomi (訓読み): はずかし(める) (hazukashi(meru)) (to disgrace/humiliate), はずかし(い) (hazukashi(i)) (ashamed/shameful)

⚫︎ 侮辱 (ぶじょく) Translation: Insult; humiliation. ⚫︎ 屈辱 (くつじょく) Translation: Humiliation; indignity. ⚫︎ 名誉を辱める (めいよをはずかしめる) Translation: To disgrace one's honor.

The kanji 辱 is a 形声文字 (keisei moji), a phono-semantic compound. It combines the radical 辰 (shin), which originally represented a large clam shell or a tool used for working the earth, and the phonetic component 寸 (sun), which refers to a unit of measurement and also implies a small, less important, or inferior quality. The original meaning of 辰 is associated with agriculture and is said to be related to the development of the ground and soil, and the other radical 寸means small and unimportant. The combination then suggests the act of degrading or belittling something, which leads to the meaning of humiliation or disgrace.