HSK 6 · Verbs

得罪 dézuì “to offend” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 得罪 means

  1. to offend
  2. to displease
  3. to commit an offence

How to say 得罪

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale得dé2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale罪zuì4th tone, falling

得罪 in a sentence

  1. 我是不是得罪他了？

    Wǒ shì bu shì dézuì tā le?

    Have I offended him?

    Sentence #5941701 from Tatoeba

  2. 他们似乎得罪了裁判。

    Tāmen sìhū dézuì le cáipàn.

    They seemed to have offended the referee.

    Sentence #7015501 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 得罪 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 得 (de) with each of its parts in a different colour
得déto obtain
  • 彳step · chì
  • 旦dawn · dàn
  • 寸inch · cùn

Memory aidA hand 寸 picking up a shell, once used as money, while out on the road 彳: to get.

The character 罪 (zuì) with each of its parts in a different colour
罪zuìguilt
  • 罒net form of 网 · wǎng
  • 非wrong · fēi

How to write 得罪

得 11 strokes · 罪 13 strokes

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得罪 (dézuì) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 得罪 (dézuì). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 得罪

Words with 得

得de · particle linking a verb to how it is done (e.g. 跑得快觉得juéde · to feel记得jìde · remember得到dédào · to get得分défēn · to score (points)懂得dǒngde · to understand认得rènde · to recognise获得huòdé · to obtain得意déyì · proud of oneself值得zhíde · to be worth

Words with 罪

受罪shòuzuì · to suffer罪犯zuìfàn · criminal

More words: Common Verbs

搭配dāpèi · to match瞪dèng · to stare蹬dēng · to push down with the foot等候děnghòu · to wait颠倒diāndǎo · to turn upside down奠定diàndìng · to establish点缀diǎnzhuì · to decorate吊diào · to hang

FAQs

得罪 (dézuì) means “to offend” or “to displease”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it dézuì: dé with a 2nd tone, then zuì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 得罪 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type dezui with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 得罪 from the suggestions. Typing dezui into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
得罪 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.