受
to receive; to accept; to suffer; subjected to; to bear; to stand; pleasant; (passive marker); (LGBT) bottom
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #402 U+53D7
How 受 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Something 冖 passed from one hand 爫 to another 又
How to remember it
accept · Heisig RSH #667
birdhouse + crotch
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 受 as their sound component
These characters all use 受 (shòu) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 受 sound component | shòu | to receive, to get, to accept; to bear |
| 授 | shòu | to award, to confer, to instruct, to teach |
| 绶 | shòu | a silk ribbon used as a seal |
Words containing 受
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 自作自受 | zì zuò zì shòu | (idiom) to reap what one has sown; to stew in one's own juice |
| 代人受过 | dài rén shòu guò | to take the blame for sb else; to be made a scapegoat |
| 体外受精 | tǐ wài shòu jīng | in vitro fertilization |
| 不好受 | bù hǎo shòu | unpleasant; hard to take |
| 受保人 | shòu bǎo rén | the insured person; the person covered by an insurance policy |
| 受性 | shòu xìng | inborn (ability, defect) |
| 小受 | xiǎo shòu | (slang) bottom (in a homosexual relationship) |
| 受气包 | shòu qì bāo | (fig.) punching bag |
| 受气 | shòu qì | to be mistreated; to be bullied |
| 可接受性 | kě jiē shòu xìng | acceptability |
| 受体 | shòu tǐ | receptor (biochemistry); acceptor (semiconductors) |
| 受主 | shòu zhǔ | acceptor (semiconductor) |
| 受事 | shòu shì | object (of a transitive verb); to receive a task |
| 花钱受气 | huā qián shòu qì | (idiom) to have a bad experience as a customer; to encounter poor service |
| 受理 | shòu lǐ | to accept to hear a case; to handle (a service) |
| 受难日 | Shòu nàn rì | Good Friday |
| 受病 | shòu bìng | to fall ill |
| 受托人 | shòu tuō rén | (law) trustee |
| 经受 | jīng shòu | to undergo (hardship); to endure; to withstand |
| 受难者 | shòu nàn zhě | sufferer; a victim of a calamity; a person in distress |