受 (shòu)
to receive; to accept; to suffer; passive marker
How 受 is written
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 爫 — claw/talon
- Traditional
- 受
- Simplified
- 受 (unchanged)
Components
- 爫 claw/talon
- 冖 cover
- 又 right hand
Common words using 受
- 享受 xiǎngshòu
- to enjoy; to live it up; pleasure
- 感受 gǎnshòu
- to sense; perception; to feel (through the senses)
- 接受 jiēshòu
- to accept; to receive
- 難受 nánshòu
- to feel unwell; to suffer pain; to be difficult to bear
- 備受 bèishòu
- to fully experience (good or bad)
- 受傷 shòushāng
- to sustain injuries; wounded (in an accident etc); harmed
- 受到 shòudào
- to receive; to suffer; obtained
- 受夠 shòugòu
- to have had enough of; to be fed up with; to have had one's fill of
- 受益 shòuyì
- to benefit from; profit
- 受罪 shòuzuì
- to endure; to suffer; hardships
- 受苦 shòukǔ
- to suffer; hardship
- 好受 hǎoshòu
- feeling better; to be more at ease
受 in a sentence
他在車禍中受傷了。
Tā zài chēhuò zhōng shòushāng le.
“He was injured in the car accident.”
How common is 受?
受 is the 238th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 59.5% of all running text.
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