虐
(bound form) brutal; oppressive; harsh; (literary) disaster; catastrophe
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How 虐 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A tiger 虍 baring its claws 彐
components: 虍 彐
How to remember it
despotic · Heisig RSH #2913
虎 tiger + broom
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words containing 虐
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 暴虐无道 | bào nüè wú dào | (idiom) tyrannical; oppressive; lawless |
| 性虐待 | xìng nüè dài | sexual abuse |
| 施虐者 | shī nüè zhě | abuser; (in sadomasochism) dominant partner |
| 虐心 | nüè xīn | heartbreaking; tear-jerking |
| 受虐狂 | shòu nüè kuáng | masochism; masochist |
| 虐待狂 | nüè dài kuáng | sadism; sadist |
| 受虐 | shòu nüè | to suffer sexual abuse; masochism |
| 施虐狂 | shī nüè kuáng | sadism (psychiatry) |
| 虐杀 | nüè shā | to kill (or assault) sadistically |
| 谑而不虐 | xuè ér bù nüè | to tease; to mock sb without offending; to banter |
| 施虐受虐 | shī nüè shòu nüè | sado-masochism |
| 暴虐 | bào nüè | brutal; tyrannical |
| 虐待 | nüè dài | to mistreat; to maltreat; to abuse; mistreatment; maltreatment |
| 施虐 | shī nüè | to torment; to abuse (an animal, child etc) |
| 残虐 | cán nüè | cruel; to treat cruelly |
| 完虐 | wán nüè | to trounce; to convincingly defeat; to significantly outperform |
| 虐恋 | nüè liàn | painful love affair; sadomasochism |
| 助纣为虐 | zhù Zhòu wéi nüè | lit. helping tyrant Zhou 商紂王|商纣王[Shang1 Zhou4 wang2] in his oppression (idiom); fig. to ta… |
| 施虐癖 | shī nüè pǐ | sadism (fetish) |
| 凌虐 | líng nüè | to maltreat; to tyrannize |