忸

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忸 U+5FF8, 忸
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5FF8
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 忹 →

Translingual

Han character

忸 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 心弓土 (PNG), four-corner 97015, composition ⿰忄丑)

  1. blush, be bashful, be ashamed

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 378, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10397
  • Dae Jaweon: page 706, character 26
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2279, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5FF8

Chinese

trad. 忸
simp. # 忸

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 忸
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 娘 (12)
Final (韻) 屋 (4)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 女六切
Baxter nrjuwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɳɨuk̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɳiuk̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/niuk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɳuwk̚/
Li
Rong 		/niuk̚/
Wang
Li 		/nĭuk̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ni̯uk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		nù
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		nuk6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 忸 忸
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 1521 1531
Phonetic
component 		丑 丑
Rime
group 		幽 覺
Rime
subdivision 		1 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		狃 肭
Old
Chinese 		/*nuʔ/ /*nuɡ/

Definitions

忸

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Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

忸

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: にく (niku)
  • Kan-on: じく (jiku)←ぢく (diku, historical)
  • Kun: はじる (hajiru, 忸じる)

Korean

Hanja

忸 • (nyu>yu) (hangeul 뉴>유, revised nyu>yu, McCune–Reischauer nyu>yu, Yale nyu>yu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

忸: Hán Nôm readings: ngượng, nữu, nau

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