jiǒng

embarrassed

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
穴 meaning component

  Meaning component

xué

  

cave

君 sound component

  Sound component

jūn

  

ruler

Evolution

窘 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
窘 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

jiǒng

embarrassed; hard-pressed; distressed

Most common words with 窘
Freq.
Word
Meaning

窘境

predicament

窘迫

very poor

distressed

困窘

embarrassment

受窘

embarrassed

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.4897% of movies

3275th most common character in movies

2979th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+7A98

Shuowen

“窘,迫也。从穴,君聲。”


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