羞

See also: 差 and 着

Translingual

Han character

羞 (Kangxi 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 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

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Chinese

trad.		羞
simp. #		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／形声, OC *snu) : semantic 羊 + phonetic 丑 (OC *n̥ʰuʔ); phonetic previously 又. Not related to 差 or 着.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiū (xiu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄡ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sau¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): siû
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): siu / chhiu

  (Teochew, Peng'im): siu¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiū
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄡ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siou
    • Wade–Giles: hsiu¹
    • Yale: syōu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiou
    • Palladius: сю (sju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sau¹
    • Yale: sāu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sau¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: seo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐu̯⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: siû
    • Hakka Romanization System: xiu´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: xiu¹
    • Sinological IPA: /si̯u²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siu / chhiu
    • Tâi-lô: siu / tshiu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siw, chiw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siu⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰiu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siu³³/, /t͡sʰiu³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siu⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰiu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /siu⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰiu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siu⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰiu⁴⁴/

Note:

• siu - literary;
• chhiu - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: siu¹
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: siu
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siu³³/

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• Middle Chinese: sjuw

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

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-nu/

  (Zhengzhang): /*snu/

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

(deprecated template usage) 羞

1. shy
2. ashamed

See also

• 恥／耻 (chǐ)

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Japanese

Kanji

羞

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しゅう (shū, Jōyō)
• Kun: はじる (hajiru, 羞じる); はずかしい (hazukashii, 羞ずかしい); はじ (haji, 羞); はずかしめる (hazukashimeru, 羞める); すすめる (susumeru, 羞める)

Compounds

• 羞恥(しゅうち) (shūchi)

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Korean

Hanja

羞 • (su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune–Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 羞 (tu)

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