委 wěi
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 女 — woman, girl
委屈
wěiqu
wronged; to feel wronged
Characters in this word
屈 qū
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 尸 — body, corpse
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 她明明做了很多工作，却被批评得很委屈。 Tā míngmíng zuò le hěn duō gōngzuò, què bèi pīpíng de hěn wěiqu. She had clearly done a lot of work, yet she felt very wronged after being criticised.
- 弟弟没拿到糖，委屈得哭了起来。 Dìdi méi nádào táng, wěiqu de kū le qǐlai. My little brother didn't get any sweets and felt so hurt that he started to cry.
- 让你等了这么久，真是委屈你了。 Ràng nǐ děng le zhème jiǔ, zhēn shì wěiqu nǐ le. Making you wait so long really wasn't fair to you.
Related words
- 委托 wěituō to entrust; to ask someone to do something
- 评委 píngwěi judge; member of a judging panel
- 委婉 wěiwǎn tactful; euphemistic
- 委员 wěiyuán committee member; member
- 委员会 wěiyuánhuì committee
- 屈服 qūfú to submit; to yield
- 灰心 huīxīn discouraged, downhearted
- 思念 sīniàn to miss, to long for
- 悲观 bēiguān pessimistic
- 寂寞 jìmò lonely
- 盼望 pànwàng to long for, to look forward to
- 孤独 gūdú lonely