羞

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See also: 差 and 着
羞 U+7F9E, 羞
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7F9E
← 羝
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 羟 →

Translingual

Han character

羞 (Kangxi radical 123, 羊+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 廿手弓土 (TQNG), four-corner 80215, composition ⿸⺶丑(G) or ⿱𦍌⿰丿丑(HTJK))

  1. disgrace, shame
  2. ashamed
  3. shy

Derived characters

References

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

Chinese

trad. 羞
simp. # 羞
alternative forms 𰃤

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 羞
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
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／形声, OC *snu) : semantic 羊 + phonetic 丑 (OC *n̥ʰuʔ); phonetic previously 又. Not related to 差 or 着.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • siu - literary;
  • chhiu - vernacular.
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
Baxter sjuw
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		sau1
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. * 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
  3. to shame

Compounds

See also

References

  • “羞”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “羞”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 266.

Japanese

Kanji

羞

(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: Hán Nôm readings: tu

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