羞
shy; ashamed; shame; bashful; variant of 饈|馐[xiu1]; delicacies
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How 羞 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
An ugly 丑 sheep 羊
How to remember it
shy · Heisig RSH #2947
wool + 丑 clown
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 羞 as their sound component
These characters all use 羞 (xiū) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 羞 sound component | xiū | shame, disgrace; shy, ashamed |
| 馐 | xiū | food, meal; to eat; to offer |
Words containing 羞
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 老羞成怒 | lǎo xiū chéng nù | see 惱羞成怒|恼羞成怒[nao3 xiu1 cheng2 nu4] |
| 闭月羞花 | bì yuè xiū huā | lit. hiding the moon, shaming the flowers (idiom); fig. female beauty exceeding even that … |
| 羞红 | xiū hóng | to blush |
| 点名羞辱 | diǎn míng xiū rǔ | to attack publicly; to stage a denunciation campaign |
| 不知羞耻 | bù zhī xiū chǐ | to have no sense of shame; brazen |
| 碍口识羞 | ài kǒu shí xiū | tongue-tied for fear of embarrassment (idiom) |
| 羞愧难当 | xiū kuì nán dāng | to feel ashamed (idiom) |
| 羞于启齿 | xiū yú qǐ chǐ | to be too shy to speak one's mind (idiom) |
| 含羞草 | hán xiū cǎo | mimosa; sensitive plant (that closes its leaves when touched) |
| 蒙羞 | méng xiū | to be shamed; to be humiliated |
| 羞脸 | xiū liǎn | to blush with shame |
| 识羞 | shí xiū | to know shame; to feel shame (often with a negative, shameless) |
| 害羞 | hài xiū | shy; embarrassed; bashful |
| 囊中羞涩 | náng zhōng xiū sè | to be embarrassingly short of money |
| 遮羞布 | zhē xiū bù | loincloth; (fig.) fig leaf; CL:塊|块[kuai4] |
| 羞羞脸 | xiū xiū liǎn | (jocular) shame on you! |
| 恼羞成怒 | nǎo xiū chéng nù | (idiom) to become enraged over a perceived humiliation |
| 荡妇羞辱 | dàng fù xiū rǔ | to slut-shame |
| 羞答答 | xiū dā dā | bashful |
| 珍羞 | zhēn xiū | variant of 珍饈|珍馐[zhen1 xiu1] |