to diminish / to demote / to reduce or devaluate / to disparage / to censure / to depreciate

= + : Every day in the evening the Brunhilde (bi) gets ready to go to bed she puts her futon (乏) on the ground of the anthill (an3) carelessly and crushes a few crabs (贝) when she jumps on her futon, thereby diminishing (贬) the total available currency (贝) in the local economy.

貶 character breakdown

short of / tired

= 丿 + : A futon. Frankenstein's monster just entered the ashram and finds a futon. Tired as he his, he immediately goes to bed, covers himself with a big banana peel and makes loud zZz sounds as he sleeps.
surname Bei
cowrie / shellfish / currency (archaic)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a crab. In the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4), the Neanderthal man (人) and Beelzebub (b) are fighting a crab with staplers (⺆), but because the Neanderthal man (人) can't handle the stapler he accidentally staples himself in the forehead.

Characters with 貶 as component

貶 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 貶

to belittle / to disparage / to play down / to demean / to degrade / to devalue
derogatory sense / negative connotation
to become devaluated / to devaluate / to depreciate
to mock; to disparage; to belittle
to mock / to disparage / to belittle
to appraise / to pass judgment on / to speak ill of / praise and censure / appraisal
to banish from the court / to relegate
to belittle / to disparage / to demean
to demote / to denounce
derogatory term / to refer to disparagingly (as)
derogatory term / expression of censure
(period of) banishment or exile (old)
dispensing praise or blame with a single word (idiom) / concise and powerful style
to expect (a currency etc) to depreciate
currency devaluation / to devaluate a currency
to get more criticism than praise
to demote an official / a demoted official

Sentences with 貶

貶 currently does not appear in any sentence.