Chinese Character Wiki

愧

kuì

ashamed

Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 鬼 represents the sound. Simplified form of 媿.

Components
忄 meaning component

忄  Meaning component

xin, xīn

  

heart

忄 is a component form of 心.

鬼 sound component

鬼  Sound component

guǐ

  

ghost

Evolution

愧 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
愧 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
愧 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
愧 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
愧 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

愧  

kuì

ashamed, conscience-stricken; ashamed

愧 (媿) 

kuì

old variant of 愧[kuì]

Most common words with 愧
Freq.
Word
Meaning

羞愧

ashamed

不愧

to be worthy of

愧疚

to feel guilty

惭愧

ashamed

当之无愧

fully deserving, without any reservations (idiom); entirely worthy (of a title, honor etc)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ruj-s

kwijH

kuì

ashamed


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 11.2126% of movies

1987th most common character in movies

2275th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+6127

Shuowen

“媿，慙也。从女，鬼聲。愧，媿或从恥省。”


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