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羞

羞

See also: 差 and 着

Translingual

Han character

羞 (radical 123 羊+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿手弓土 (TQNG), four-corner 80215, composition ⿸⺶丑)

  1. disgrace, shame
  2. ashamed
  3. shy

References

  • KangXi: page 952, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28471
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1395, character 28
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3128, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+7F9E

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 羞

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 羞
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (丑) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
峱 *nuː
紐 *nuʔ
扭 *nuʔ, *tnuʔ
狃 *nuʔ, *nus
鈕 *nuʔ
忸 *nuʔ, *nuɡ
杻 *nuʔ, *n̥ʰuʔ
莥 *nuʔ
羞 *snu
丑 *n̥ʰuʔ
沑 *njuʔ, *nuɡ
粈 *njuʔ
衄 *nuɡ, *njuɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *snu) : semantic 羊 + phonetic 丑 ‎(OC *n̥ʰuʔ); phonetic previously 又. Not related to 差 or 着.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 羞
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 息流切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /sɨu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /siu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /siəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /suw/
Li
Rong		 /siu/
Wang
Li		 /sĭəu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /si̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xiū
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 羞
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xiū
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sjuw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s-nu/
English shame

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 羞
Reading # 1/1
No. 1524
Phonetic
component		 丑
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 脩
Old
Chinese		 /*snu/

Definitions

羞

  1. shy
  2. ashamed

Compounds

  • 羞答答
  • 羞羞答答
  • 羞臊
  • 羞與為伍／羞与为伍
  • 羞辱 (xiūrǔ)

See also

Japanese

Kanji

羞

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

羞 • ‎(su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune-Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

羞 (tu)

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