HSK 5 · Verbs

委屈 wěiqu “to feel wronged” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 委屈 means

  1. to feel wronged
  2. to be treated unfairly
  3. wronged
  4. aggrieved
  5. to inconvenience
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to put (sb) at a disadvantage
  • to do sb wrong
  • sense of being wronged

How to say 委屈

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale委wěi3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own屈quneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

委屈 in a sentence

  1. 她觉得很委屈，哭了起来。

    Tā juéde hěn wěiqu, kū le qǐlai.

    She felt she’d been treated unfairly and started to cry.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 这件事让你受委屈了。

    Zhè jiàn shì ràng nǐ shòu wěiqu le.

    You were treated unfairly over this.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 委屈 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 委 (wěi) with each of its parts in a different colour
委wěito entrust
  • 禾grain · hé
  • 女woman · nǚ
The character 屈 (qū) with each of its parts in a different colour
屈qūbentlight in 委屈
  • 尸corpse · shīMeaning part
  • 出to go out · chūSound part

尸 hints at the meaning (corpse); 出 (chū) hints at the sound. Compare it with qu.

How to write 委屈

委 8 strokes · 屈 8 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 委屈

Words with 委

委托wěituō · to entrust委员wěiyuán · committee member

Words with 屈

屈服qūfú · to yield

More words: Thinking & Talking

提问tíwèn · to question体会tǐhuì · to know from experience推辞tuīcí · to decline (an offer or invitation)推荐tuījiàn · to recommend问候wènhòu · to give one’s respects想念xiǎngniàn · to miss想象xiǎngxiàng · to imagine信任xìnrèn · to trust

FAQs

委屈 (wěiqu) means “to feel wronged” or “to be treated unfairly”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it wěiqu: wěi with a 3rd tone, then qu with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 委屈 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type weiqu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 委屈 from the suggestions. Typing weiqu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
委屈 is an HSK 5 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 written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.