羞

See also: 差 and 着
羞 U+7F9E, 羞
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7F9E
← 羝
[U+7F9D] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 羟 →
[U+7F9F]

Translingual

Han character

羞 (radical 123, 羊+5, 11 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

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
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, 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
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

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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