愧

See also: 媿

Translingual

Han character

愧 (radical 61 心+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 心竹山戈 (PHUI), four-corner 9601₃, composition ⿰忄鬼)

1. ashamed, conscience-stricken

References

• KangXi: page 396, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10982
• Dae Jaweon: page 734, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2329, character 11
• Unihan data for U+6127

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		愧

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kuì (kui⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kwai³, kwai⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: kuì
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄟˋ
    • Wade-Giles: k'uei⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuey
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: kwai³, kwai⁵
    • Yale: kwai, kwáih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kwai³, kwai⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /kʷʰɐi̯³³/, /kʷʰɐi̯¹³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (愧, reconstructed)
Character (愧), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 脂 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 俱位切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kiuɪH/	/kwiH/	/kuiH/	/kʷiH/	/kwiH/	/kwiH/	/kjuɪH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (愧, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
愧								kuì								‹ kwijH ›								/*[k]ruj-s/								ashamed
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
愧					4682					鬼					微					2					媿					/*kruls/					說文同媿

Compounds

• 愧对
• 愧恨
• 愧悔
• 愧疚
• 愧色
• 愧痛

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Japanese

Kanji

愧

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: き (ki)
• Kun: はじる (hajiru)

Compounds

• 愧死
• 愧色

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Korean

Hanja

愧 (goe) (hangeul 괴, revised goe, McCune-Reischauer koe, Yale koy)

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Vietnamese

Han character

愧 (quý)

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