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Mythic Mandarin

羞 (xiū): meaning and stroke order

羞 (xiū) means shy, ashamed, shame, bashful, variant of 馐, delicacies.

羞

Simplified
羞
Traditional
羞 (same form)
Pinyin
xiū

Stroke order of 羞

羞

  • xiū shy; ashamed
  • 10 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 羞

  1. xiū
    • shy
    • ashamed
    • shame
    • bashful
    • variant of 饈|馐[xiu1]
    • delicacies

Radical and structure

羞
Radical 羊 (Kangxi radical 123) · 10 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 羞

羞 in our stories

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  • 共工又羞又怒，竟然一头撞向了不周山。

    Gònggōng yòu xiū yòu nù jìngrán yì tóu zhuàng xiàng le Bùzhōu Shān

    Humiliated and furious, Gonggong rammed his head into Mount Buzhou.

    From the story Nüwa mends the sky HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 张别古又羞又急，回去问瓦盆，盆里的声音委屈地说：“大堂门口有门神，我一个冤魂，怎么敢进去？”

    Zhāng Biégǔ yòu xiū yòu jí huíqu wèn wǎpén pén lǐ de shēngyīn wěiqu de shuō dàtáng ménkǒu yǒu ménshén wǒ yí gè yuānhún zěnme gǎn jìnqu

    Ashamed and anxious, Zhang Biegu went back and asked the basin. The voice said plaintively, "There are door gods at the court entrance. How would a wronged ghost dare go in?"

    From the story The tale of the black basin HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 羞

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).