醜

See also: 丑

Translingual

Han character

醜 (Kangxi radical 164, 酉+10, 17 strokes, cangjie input 一田竹山戈 (MWHUI), four-corner 1661₃, composition ⿰酉鬼)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1286, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39969
• Dae Jaweon: page 1786, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3590, character 6
• Unihan data for U+919C

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Chinese

trad.		醜
simp.		丑*

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (酉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
楢	*kʰjuʔ, *lu
逎	*ʔslu
遒	*sklu, *sɡlu
蝤	*sklu, *sɡlu
揂	*sklu
酒	*ʔsluʔ
媨	*sklus
鞧	*skʰlu
緧	*skʰlu
趥	*skʰlu, *skʰluŋs
酋	*sɡlu
崷	*sɡlu
鰌	*sɡlu
煪	*sɡlu
醜	*l̥ʰjuʔ
猶	*klus, *lu, *lus
猷	*lu
輶	*lu, *luʔ, *lus
偤	*lu
莤	*lu, *sruɡ
蕕	*lu
庮	*lu, *luʔ
槱	*luʔ, *lus
梄	*luʔ
丣	*luʔ
酉	*luʔ

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 醜

1. ugly; homely; hideous
2. shameful; disgraceful

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 醜 (“ugly”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		醜, 媸
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		醜陋
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	難看, 寒磣, 磣
	Taiwan	難看, 醜
	Singapore	難看, 醜
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	難看, 醜
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	難看, 醜, 不心疼
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	難看, 醜
	Wuhan	醜, 不好看
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	難看, 醜
	Hefei	難看, 醜, 相壞
Cantonese	Guangzhou	難睇, 醜, 醜怪, 樣衰, 醜樣, 肉酸, 核突
	Hong Kong	難睇, 醜, 醜怪, 樣衰, 醜樣, 肉酸, 核突
	Dongguan	難睞
	Yangjiang	惡看, 醜鬼
Gan	Nanchang	不客氣, 難看
Hakka	Meixian	難看, 難睞, 醜, 像鬼
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	媸, 醜
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	媸, 醜
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	媸, 醜
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	媸, 醜
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	媸, 醜
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	䆀
Jin	Taiyuan	難看, 醜
Northern Min	Jian'ou	驚人, 毛格式, 生得呆
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	驚儂, 驚, 伓好看, 生得呆
Southern Min	Xiamen	歹看, 㾀勢
	Quanzhou	兇, 歹看, 㾀勢
	Jinjiang	兇, 歹看, 㾀勢
	Zhangzhou	䆀看, 㾀勢
	Taipei	歹看, 䆀, 䆀材, 㾀, 䆀猴, 㾀勢
	Kaohsiung	歹看
	Singapore (Hokkien)	歹看, 䆀
	Manila (Hokkien)	兇, 歹看, 㾀勢
	Chaozhou	孬睇, 野樣, 䆀
	Shantou	野樣
	Jieyang	野樣
	Singapore (Teochew)	歹睇
Wu	Shanghai	難看, 怕
	Shanghai (Songjiang)	怕
	Shanghai (Jiading)	怕
	Suzhou	難看, 怕
	Kunshan	難看
	Jiaxing	難看
	Hangzhou	難看
	Ningbo	難看
	Wenzhou	難覷, 否好覷, 醜
Xiang	Changsha	醜, 不好看, 不打彩
	Shuangfeng	醜, 不好看

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Japanese

Kanji

醜

(Jōyō kanji)

1. ugly
2. shameful, disgraceful

Readings

• Go-on: しゅ (shu)
• Kan-on: しゅう (shū, Jōyō)^{←しう (siu, historical)}
• Kun: みにくい (minikui, 醜い, Jōyō); にくむ (nikumu, 醜む); たぐい (tagui, 醜); しこ (shiko, 醜)

Compounds

Derived terms

• 醜態(しゅうたい) (shūtai): disgraceful behavior
• 醜聞(しゅうぶん) (shūbun): scandal
• 醜女(しこめ) (shikome): ugly woman
• 醜男(ぶおとこ) (buotoko)/醜男(しこお) (shikō): ugly man
• 醜草(しこぐさ) (shikogusa): ugliness

• 醜名(しゅうめい) (shūmei): scandal
• 醜悪(しゅうあく) (shūaku): ugliness
• 美醜(びしゅう) (bishū): beauty and ugliness (appearance)
• 老醜(ろうしゅう) (rōshū): ugliness due to old age
• 醜(みにく)の木(き) (minikunoki): ugly tree

Noun

醜(しゅう) • (shū) 

1. ugliness

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Korean

Hanja

醜 • (chu) (hangeul 추, revised chu, McCune–Reischauer ch'u, Yale chwu)

1. ugly looking, homely
2. disgraceful

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 醜 (xấu, xổ, xú, xũ, sú)

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